Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late hour last night, just after he had entered his weekly trance, Dr. Hu Flung Huey ocC., the Sage of the Age, was confronted with a mass of telegrams from all parts of the world, congratulating him on his most successful season and wishing him luck against Yale. Struck down with astonishment, Dr. Huey's trance went out of control and he swooned. At latest reports his frantic colleagues were dosing him with a variety of medicines chiefly notable for their high alcoholic content. Prospects for an early recovery seemed very dark...
...Franklin D. Roosevelt and his political generalissimo. James A. Farley, its election of Assemblymen last week provided such partisans with a bare bone for gnawing. The President's part was to sit at Hyde Park and serve in silence as a rabbit's foot to bring luck to Democratic candidates. The part of the Postmaster General was to serve, in anything but silence, as the donkey's head. As chairman of both State and National Democratic Committees, he was confident that Democrats would elect a majority of the Assembly which, in turn, would be an omen...
Fourteen artists who have had good luck in selling pictures through loan exhibitions promptly resigned from the Painters, Sculptors & Gravers. As prominent as any of the boycotters, they included Guy Pene du Bois, Charles Burchfield, Eugene Speicher, William Glackens, Charles Hopkinson, John Carroll, Mahonri Young, Henry Mattson, John Sloan, Judson Smith...
...Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports, the Pro Arte Quartet from Belgium and the Roth Quartet from Budapest, decided that his was virile U. S. music which was well worth playing widely. Two years ago the Boston Symphony played Harris' Symphony...
Long-established managers regarded him as an upstart. But they have always been bewildered by the lavish amount of talent he has steadily produced. When in 1925 he went into bankruptcy, his day seemed done. But luck came again with Depression and he presented such money-makers as Dancer Mary Wigman, Hindu Uday Shan-Kar, the Singing Boys of Vienna, the Piccoli Marionettes...