Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terence Preece, who learned the game at Westbury where his father deals in polo ponies and hunters. Santa Paula had been badly handicapped early in the tournament when chunky Manuel Andrada, captain and back, sprained his mallet-hand in an early match. They ran into more of the bad luck that always seems to follow Argentine poloists in the U. S. when their No. 1, Alfredo Harrington, fell at a polo pony show and tore his leg muscles. Andrada took his arm out of its sling, moved Andres Gazzotti up to No. 1, left mustachioed Juan Reynal...
...Francisco, Leo V. Dowling slashed his wrists and throat, but failed to commit suicide. Recovering in a hospital he received a large horseshoe of flowers with a card on which was written: ''Better luck next time." Leo V. Dowling gasped, died...
...took one of the hundreds of negotiable bonds passing through his hands every day, presented it to the broker, saved his account. For twelve years he tried to repay that $500, doubling his stake, multiplying it 20, 30, 100 times. He opened accounts with other brokers to change his luck. His thefts were never discovered because when he stole a bond he also stole the bank's records showing receipt of that bond. If he had to produce a missing certificate at the bank he substituted another for it at the broker...
...loss of his arm, then contemptuous, Reinhold meets Mieze, plans to take her away from Biberkopf to complete his humiliation. When Mieze will have none of him, Reinhold murders her. Biberkopf is suspected of the murder; he hides, disguises himself, but the police catch him. Bewilderment at his bad luck has addled his wits; he is taken, not to jail this time, but to an asylum. There Death throws him but cannot quite keep him down. When Franz Biberkopf emerges from the shadow of death, and the threat of jail, he is older, wiser than most...
...this year's contest. Italy and France, the two nations who were to challenge England's possession of the Cup, announced that they would be unable to participate in the races unless they were postponed for six months. Both gave as reasons bad weather, ill luck and loss of pilots and machines. The Royal Aero Club consulted the contest rules and announced that no such postponement was possible, that England's planes, unofficially reported to have flown faster than 400 m.p.h., would hold speed trials of their...