Word: luck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...machine guns by his side, at the Shannon farm shortly after Urschel's release. It was Harvey J. Bailey who escaped from the Dallas jail last Labor Day after forcing his way out with a mysteriously acquired pistol and kidnapping one of his guards. Only by the sheerest luck had the police been able to recapture him the same day at Ardmore, Okla. And it was Bailey's fugitive partner, George ("Machine Gun") Kelly who last week threatened the life of Urschel and other witnesses if they testified at the trial. It was doubtless Kelly who threatened also...
Estimating the chances of the major league teams last spring, most baseball experts predicted that the New York Yankees would repeat their American League success of 1932. They suggested that Washington might, if its new Playing Manager Joe Cronin got his share of luck, get second place. In the National League, experts almost unanimously predicted that the New York Giants would finish in the second division, probably sixth. While the Senators were clinching their pennant in Washington last week, the Giants were getting an official welcome in Manhattan. They had won the National League pennant three days prior...
...flourish Air Commander Garankidze waved the ground crew to cast off. The huge bag rose groggily about 10 ft. It wobbled sideways across the airdrome, but not an inch higher would it go. The ground crew dragged the bag back; part of the heavy apparatus was unloaded. Still no luck. After two hours of struggle, Air Com-mander Garankidze wearily ordered: "De- flate." The ripcord was yanked and the silvery bag billowed to earth. C. A German racing balloon, blown by a stiff wind clear out of Germany and across the North Sea, landed on the English coast. Its crew...
Jockeying for the start of the first of six races for a "women's national sailing championship" off Cohasset, Mass. last week, Skipper Lorna Whittelsey of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club's crew had a piece of hard luck. Two of the other six boats in the race-sailed by crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible...
...often happens in golf, luck and good playing went together. On the short 7th, with the match all square, the defending champion sank a 45-ft. putt for a two. It made her one up for the first time in 21 holes. Trying desperately to catch up, Helen Hicks had a good chance at the 9th, until her opponent laid her a dead stymie. A 75-yd. spade shot that stopped three inches from the cup at the 12th put Miss Van Wie three up. On the 15th, both balls were on the green in two, but Helen Hicks...