Word: lose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vajda and directed by Frank Tuttle. Deft productions, each containing the same ingredients of wit and social charm, have followed each other like a string of sausages coming out of a hopper. This time a nobleman's servants, knowing that if they let him go bankrupt they will lose the money he owes them, form a corporation to save him from his creditors on condition that he marry an heiress they pick out for him. Once more Menjou, with slight movements of his hands, lips, and eyebrows, convinces you that laughter and humanity can exist under a starched, striped...
...name was "Mr. Day" wanted to play bank and was graciously allowed to oust the Syndicate. On the first coup they wagered a half-million francs against Banker Day at one end of the table and a million at the other. As he dealt the cards they stood to lose $60,000; but he lost instead, at both ends of the table. Thereafter the Syndicate banked for some time alone...
...died last fortnight, the prizefight business in which he had become famed was courteously conceded to be an honorable one. Actually, it is not. So much Author March knows about the background against which he versifies the story of a colored boxer whose managers took pay to have him lose a fight, and who, not aware of this arrangement, won the fight, and was then murdered for winning...
...Nearly 45 per cent of the females now practicing prostitution in Moscow came from the provinces to work as servants. When such peasant girls lose their positions and are unable to find others, they seem afraid to return home, or unwilling to give up city life, and therefore they prostitute themselves...
...France, to offer verbally his suggestions to the Soviet government and Dictator Josef Stalin. He will suggest the purchase of $100,000 worth of farm machinery, $50,000,000 worth of trucks. He will urge the immediate construction and repair of Soviet roads. Whatever U. S. wheatgrowers may lose from the recovery of Russia's export position will have been gained by U. S. machinery manufacturers...