Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tomb was in that of Amenhotep, threatening despoilers with poverty and ostracism, not death. The curse story started when Howard Carter's pet canary was swallowed by a snake. A poetic native remarked: "The serpent from the crown of the King has eaten the golden bird. Bad luck will follow." That was an inspiration to certain newshawks who were disgruntled because exclusive story rights for the Carnarvon expedition had been given to the London Times...
...Louis Gitlan's candy store, zealous Policeman Isadore Newman dropped 25 pennies in a game of bagatelle (shooting marbles from a plunger into numbered holes on a sloping board). On his 25th try, he won 5? worth of candy, arrested Louis Gitlan for owning a gambling device. "All luck." charged Plunger Newman. Asked the Court: "As a matter of fact ... as you continued to play you got better and better, did you not?" "My scores got better," Newman replied. The Court ruled bagatelle a game of skill, set Candyman Gitlan free...
...Metropolitan debut with a name already important in Europe and Chicago (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930 et seq.). Last week she was nervous. Her husband. Herr Otto Krause who left his insurance business in Vienna to hear the performance, knew it. The battered old doll which she kisses for luck each time she goes on stage trembled in her hands. But the audience saw no signs of uncertainty, no lack of confidence. They saw a Sieglinde who moved about the stage gracefully, so sure of each difficult phrase that she never had to cock an eye on the conductor. They heard...
...student who can go into the reading room those days and find there the particular examination papers he has set his heart on. Somebody else has invariably pre-empted the 1933 models first, absconding with them in unholy glee and with the determination to make the most of his luck; with the result that the student in question must content himself with a volume of archaic exams more in keeping with the curiosities in the treasure room than the exam files...
Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson, who lost his job coaching football at Notre Dame following the team's disastrous season, met his successor Elmer Layden at last week's convention of the American Football Coaches' Association in Chicago. Gripping hands heartily they wished each other luck. Hunk Anderson had just signed a three-year contract to coach at North Carolina State. Then they listened to a discussion of how coaches can safeguard their jobs...