Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...railway clerk. Soon in debt, with his salary garnisheed. they move in on the Fisher family, where his asinine laughs, platitudes and backslapping madden his sardonic mother-in-law. J. Aubrey loses his job, wrecks a borrowed car, is cast off by his wife. By stupid luck he muddles out of his despair to remain the same conceited show-off to the end. Good shot: ¶Ma & Pa Fisher after the wedding reading Aubrey's travel folders on Waikiki Beach, the Taj Mahal and the Riviera while the honeymooners embark on the night boat to Albany...
...diet which consists mostly of fruit and vegetables, a glass of sherry before she goes on stage. She keeps dogs and cats in her Vienna home but not in her dressing-room. To every performance she takes photographs of her father, mother, grandmother, brother, husband, kisses them all for luck...
...years ago the problem of resuscitation began to absorb Dr. Cornish. Last year he tried but failed to revive a man dead five hours of heart disease with oxygen mask and teeterboard, no injections. He had no better luck with two men dead six hours...
...four days, got it. It was decided the crew was to take a night spin to get the feel of the water at flood tide. Precedent was broken when they went up to the course at Putney a week earlier than usual, a week ahead of Cambridge. Then bad luck began to break. Snow and biting cold set in. No. 7 poisoned his finger. No. 6 came down with influenza. A new man was seated at bow a week before the race. But these were not the least of Oxford's misfortunes. On race day last week, Cambridge...
...even be asked where the hole was." Proof of Old Tom's hole was in his bottle-glittering full of gold dust. Last week when the two biggest gold mines in the Philippines announced their dividends for 1933, it was plain that Old Tom's good luck was not unique. Benguet Consolidated Mining, formed in 1903 when the industry had hardly begun, was a richly paying enterprise even before it acquired control of its chief competitor, Balatoc Mining. Last week Benguet and Balatoc voted their stockholders a 100% dividend of $4,100,000. During the year they...