Crossword-Solution: BELTER 6 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The label `Finagle's Law' was popularized by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this `Belter' culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.

Jem Belter, who “hammered” a typewriter at Schwab's Brewery, Tom Wetherbee, who was “in a downtown office,” Bert Johnson, who was “out for the Delkoff,” and Nick Baumgarten, who having for some time “beaten” certain streets as assistant salesman for the same illustrious machine, had been recently elevated to a “territory” of his own, and was therefore in high spirits.

They concentrated their combined attention upon him, Belter and Johnson leaning forward on their folded arms, to watch him as he talked.

Half the time I didn't believe it, and half the time I was ashamed of myself to think it was all happening to me and none of your fellows were in it.” “Oh, well,” said Jem Belter, “luck chases some fellows, anyhow.

Belter, top floor," says she; "but don't mind about----" "That'll be all right, too," says I, skippin' down over the broken glass and puntin' the five-cent white through the door for a goal.