Word: defeats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youngest Prime Minister of a British Dominion, and the only one who keeps an airplane in the cellar of his house, is Australia's brisk, zestful Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 46. Last week he fought and lost on the most vital issue in Australian policies. One vote cost him defeat- the vote of a rich, debonair yachtsman who raced in Sir Thomas Lipton's defeated Shamrock...
...when all this is over, when glittering generalities on the value of a college education, fight talks from the football coach and captain, ecstacy and despair over triumph and defeat in athletics have faded into a dim haze in the subconscious mind, the class will gradually realize that with the beginning of their Sophomore year they will be a part of one of the most important social experiments ever attempted in American education...
...subsequent history, Writer White said: "It's right there [Hidalgo County] . . . that our two most stylish American breakfast foods, GRAFT and GRAPEFRUIT . . . have been brought to their very highest and juiciest state of perfection. . . . R. B. Creager . . . for reasons best known to himself, has always encouraged the DEFEAT of his own party in Hidalgo county. . . Will the Texas Tammany boys, supported by the illiterate, non-taxpaying Mexican voters, and their loyal Republican friend, Hon. R. B. Creager, be able to hold their jobs and thus continue to dictate the destiny of a huge and ever-increasing tax roll...
...MacDonald, pacificist, socialist, internationalist, has represented the British Empire at a conference of the great powers. Particularly last week it was advisable for Mr. MacDonald to show himself the broad, humanitarian champion of peace that he has always been. The Latin powers were in a huff, galled by their defeat at The Hague by Britain's stubborn, ungracious Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (see col. 2). The French especially were furious. Therefore, on his way to Geneva, last week, astute Scot MacDonald stopped off at Paris with his apple-cheeked daughter Ishbel, to pay a tactful, friendly little...
...four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles champion with Maurice ("Comet"; McLoughlin Lean-faced George Martin Lott Jr. of Chicago was especially pleased with himself because he felt he had somewhat vindicated his crucial defeat in the Davis Cup singles at Paris in July...