Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of all his other troubles, unhappy Herbert Hoover's White House offices caught fire four Christmases ago. President Roosevelt had better luck last week when a blaze in the wastepaper storage room of the Executive Offices was promptly discovered and extinguished by an alert guard...
...idol had filed suit for divorce from his wife, a Eurasian vaudeville singer who calls herself Princess Nai Tai Ta. When they were first married eight years ago Mrs. Greenleaf took a lively interest in her husband's work, wore a brown en semble at his games for luck. At exhibition matches she also essayed to sing accompaniments to Greenleaf's fanciest shots. When they separated, Champion Greenleaf presented...
...forays. But Vridar considers himself engaged to easy-going Neloa Doole at home. Besides, when he gets near a girl he begins to shake. When he hears that Neloa has been going around with other men. however, he does his best to emulate "Forenoon," but has no luck. Home for the summer, he finds that Neloa still loves him, according to her lights, but has indeed bestowed her favors on several casual callers. Vridar nearly goes crazy, tries to break with her but can not. Back at college as a vengeful enemy of society, he gets drunk, steals groceries, cheats...
...next grab up the receiver to demand "How about it?" Then he would go striding off down a corridor, pop into someone's office to ask a question, pop out again, race back to his desk. Amiable, casual in manner, he sped callers on their way with "Good luck, old boy. Thanks for coming in." His job was to meet tycoons when they went to Washington with their problems and he had the knack of sending them all away happy whether or not they got what they wanted. Last week U. S. Steel acquired his future services. On April...
Shark-hunters have no luck with guns or dynamite. A dead shark sinks at once. In his Hawaiian days Sharkman Young used to rip open a dead horse, trail it behind his boat, harpoon the sharks as they swarmed to tear at the flesh. When he went into shark-hunting on a commercial scale, Sharkman Young strung 600-ft. nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark...