That is, Arkansas would buy lottery tickets in other states, with the idea that a wellordered sequence of birthday and wedding-anniversary dates might, with some luck, fill the coffers in Little Rock.
Their era is over, and a new gang, the Young Baby Squad, are trying their luck at filling their shoes – but not very successfully.
And even a truly dedicated researcher sometimes needs a little luck to fill them in.
I have many sad stories to tell but I promised the people in question that I wouldn't use their bad luck to fill my blog.
When Darren and Leah arrived in Forks, the town embraced them: strangers came by with tools, technical advice and free labor; and when they opened in June, anonymous bouquets of flowers and good-luck cards filled the sidewalk.
"Good luck to the manager filling that, it will be hard," he says.
So Sheldon Adelson was in luck, Las Vegas being filled with barbarians, particularly the kind who wear black socks and Nikes and T-shirts and shorts to restaurants at night and leave their baseball caps on during dinner.
It was a sorry end to an eventful career featuring enough success, bad luck and controversy to fill a six-part drama series.
In the months following that "bad luck", his correspondence is filled with analysis of rivalries between Spain and France (the politician in him never slept), but he also offers more intimate glimpses into his life.
