Word: long-lost
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...took nine years of study and travel to enable Dyer-Bennett, born a cousin of thirteenth British baronet Swinnerton Dyer, to develop his skill in the long-lost art of minstrelsy. Last summer he established the Dyer-Bennett School of Minstrelsy in Aspen, Colorado...
Here they were treated like long-lost relatives. Mary, the waitress, treats them like a "godmother," serving them a strict diet of cheeseburgers and "chocolate malted frappes." "Here we can sing until the frappes curdle, and nobody says a word," the choresters exclaim...
...grimy Manhattan warehouse last week, the long-lost oil paintings of famed Illustrator Gustave Doré went on sale. Like the auctioneer, none of the 150 cautious dealers and enthusiastic old ladies on hand for the auction had any clear idea of what the paintings were worth...
...sugar, camphor, tea, paper, chemicals, oil refining, cement). He confiscated some 500 Jap-owned factories and mines, tens of thousands of houses. As the Shanghai newspaper Wen Hui Pao remarked, he ran everything "from the hotel to the night-soil business." The Formosans felt like colonial stepchildren rather than long-lost sons...
Four days after the election, President Truman threw in the sponge in his administration's long-lost battle to hang on to price controls. In one sweeping order, the President brushed off price controls on everything but sugar and rice (both in short supply) and on rents. Out went the last wage and salary controls...