Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anyhow, in these rather terrifying surroundings, the will is read, and nobody has the slightest luck except Miss Annabel West, to whom everything falls unless she chances to be of unsound mind. Apparently she isn't, but how she comes through the rest of the play with all her mental equipment intact is the greatest mystery...
...there the happy outlook ends abruptly, Substitutes, will grounded in ability and experience, are painfully lacking. Either they must be developed or the first-string line-up must be brought through to the end of the season intact. And the latter task requires not only a large element of luck but also judgment to an extraordinary degree...
There is such a thing as journalistic luck. When President Harding died suddenly and unexpectedly, a representative of the Associated Press was waiting outside the Presi- dent's door in the hallway? almost deserted because it was thought that the President's health was improving. Regardless of this fact an Associated Press man had been on hand continuously. As soon as the President collapsed, the reporter was away with the news. Telegraph operators had been ordered not to leave their instruments. Only a few minutes later the news was in newspaper offices throughout the country. That was journalistic preparedness...
...music publishing enterprises of both Austria and Germany have been ruined, and the most famous houses have been barely able to exist. A queer and ironical turn of luck enters here. The Teutonic publisher of cultural works in general has long been noted for his courage and self-abnegation. The story of the publisher and Einstein is characteristic. Einstein brought his manuscript, saying that there were a dozen men in the entire world who would be able to understand it. The publisher replied meditatively that he would print the work. The music houses constantly got out editions of composers...
...with a black box containing a silver and gilt key to the city, in recognition of my service as a golfer on the Walker Cup (earn in England." Thomas Gibbons, challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing-championship: "Mayor Nelson of St. Paul gave me a good luck token before my departure for Shelby, Mont. It was the left hind foot of a buck rabbit shot in a cemetery at midnight under a full moon...