Word: lucklessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catherine of Aragon is a smooth, vivid, ripely meditated job of historical reconstruction, which brings the luckless, dauntless queen into a full human light. Catherine changed the course of history not by riding with the tide of events but by standing against it, like a great rock in a stream...
...when the boys got in trouble with the outside authorities that General Apted really took on the guise of a friend in need. A word from him and the Cambridge cops would free a luckless inebriate from the Central Square jail and allow him to proceed to his dormitory. With police forces for miles around "Charlie's" word was as good as bail...
...Northampton constabulary is on the job these days. Even Paul Revere would have a hard time getting through the town at more than a slow canter. The little yellow triangles with their glass-lettered '25 m.p.h." mean what they say nowadays, and woe to the luckless wretch who presses the accelerator down to the floor and watches the needle creep slowly up to twenty...
...flags dipped, bombers droned overhead, ships' guns and shore batteries boomed a 21-gun salute, the biggest detachment of the U. S. Fleet to visit Australia in 16 years tied up at the big docks in Woolloomooloo Bay. Ashore piled 2,000 officers and men, leaving aboard the luckless few who had the duty...
...fellows by turning frontier bandits, it is good in precisely the ways hundreds of Westerns have been good before: the train robbery, the chase through the sagebrush, the last great scene where false men and true shoot it out until the gun finally drops from the villain's luckless hand. Good shot: the Dalton gang, fully mounted, jumping from a speeding train...