Word: loser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similarity, if it is not really the common variety, of Vingt-et-un. The account of his first night's gaming is the high point of the narrative. Willie is not an inveterate gambler, in fact he is naive to the point of ignorance. Temperamentally he is a graceful loser, but fundamentally he is at a loss to cope with the situation. From the general nature of Schnitzler's work, the tremendous coincidence of Fate at the end, was hardly to be expected. One looked for a more realistic, if less dramatic ending. The chief characteristic of the book...
...harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing-room, loser of the world's featherweight championship.* Tapped and fondled by the official doctor, he was declared to be suffering from a probable fracture of the collarbone. Bass had fought through some ten rounds of one of the most vicious featherweight combats in memory with the jabbing agony...
...recalls that after the Franco-Prussian War the statue of Alsace in the Place de la Concorde was veiled in black, but France had been the loser, while Belgium in 1918 was one of the conquering nations. Belgium's memory is perhaps so vivid she, like the British general in the Revolutionary War, would cease to exist after another such victory. It is nevertheless a novelty in ante-bellum relations to find the conquered nation attempting to bury the hatchet, while the conqueror earnestly digs it up again. And even if a complete acknowledgement be made of the justification...
...after invoking a hall of "poor loser" criticism, the bare facts remain, that undergraduate members of the University must take their chances among forty eight thousand graduates for the privilege of watching, at least from hailing distance, what is primarily an undergraduate function. A suggestion for change now can do no possible good to those who feel the burden of a present cross, but for future generations of undergraduates, as the saying goes, perhaps it will not have been suggested in vain...
...frantic rush and smash of trying to defend the Davis Cup (TIME, Sept. 19). Gloom shrouded experts, patriots. Tilden, dogged, forced Lacoste to long deuce sets. Never a popular champion, the greatest ovation of his history drummed into his ears as he walked off the court loser to Lacoste...