Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympic also figured in the news. On it, last week, Mr. Stillman sailed for Europe, smiling, wishing the newlyweds luck, denying that he would remarry. It was on the deck of the Olympic that Mrs. Stillman was served with her husband's first divorce action in 1920. The same ship carried the Stillmans to Europe for their reconciliation honeymoon in 1926. Asked about her affection for young Fowler McCormick at that time, said...
...convention of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen at Houston last week Secretary of Labor William Nuckles Doak pulled from his pocket an old, flat, Irish potato. This, he announced, was his "magic potato." It brought him good luck. Said he: "It is even good for neurasthenia...
...with the jockeys' backs profiled above the rail like mechanical rabbits, Sweep All moved up and passed Ladder. Twenty Grand saved his speed for the last half-mile. George Ellis who had brought a Negro jockey all the way from Baltimore so he could rub his head for luck, was up on Mate. He and Kurtsinger drew their whips at the same time coming into the straight. Mate was tired but Twenty Grand passed Sweep All and moved away so easily he was four lengths ahead at the finish with Mate in third place, three lengths behind Sweep...
...Woodworth had with him his sweater with the varsity "N" (Northwestern) on it. That might bring him luck. It had in football. He never wore a headguard but he never got hurt. Knute Rockne of Notre Dame had respected the Northwestern team, called Woodworth one of the greatest guards in the country. But outboard motor racing is different from football; the whole thing depends on your engine more than yourself. No use fooling with your gas on a race as long as this; leaded or etherized gas has speed but lacks power, and Woodworth needed power to make the light...
...have had two days practice," the management pointed out, "on the athletics, self-coached for all principle. Our methods will be entirely above-board, and with luck, at the bat, touching first, third, and home, we will win." Observers on Soldiers Field report that one of the practice sessions was spent in watching the CRIMSON-Lampoon clash, and if the scholars were impressed with journalistic methods, Eli key men should learn this afternoon what can happen to a man between the key-stone sack and the hot corner...