Word: losers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody can be quite sure how all the great splashing began, but the Burmese have an explanation which seems to satisfy them. At the beginning of time, they say, Thi-gya-min made a bet with a rival god-who was so angry that he literally sizzled. The loser was to have his head chopped off. Thi-gya-min won, but his rival's severed head might not be defiled by touching the ground, so seven divine maidens took turns passing it from one to the other. Every time the head reached another daughter, a New Year began. Since...
...about decided he would have to blast anyway, when three students heard him and called the cops. Parry was going back to his car for a longer wire when a patrolman stuck a pistol in his face. "Who are you, pal?" asked the cop. "I'm a loser,"*said Parry wearily...
...article on new college coaches, Life Magazine stated that Hickman "could eat more than any two men alive." The contest, which was to be paid for by the loser, was never staged...
...page headline: FREDDIE FRANCISCO-EMBEZZLER-THIEF. Who was Freddie Francisco? Why, said Tarantino, he was a man of eight aliases, with a 20-year criminal record studded with seven arrests (forgery, robbery, grand larceny, theft of Government property) and four convictions for theft, forgery, and fraud. A four-time loser, he was on parole from the federal prison at Atlanta, and was an "accomplished shakedown artist." What was Hearst going to do about...
...Saroyan scribbled his thanks and regrets on a postcard: "I do not believe any producer can afford to produce one of my plays. They are all potential failures, and my terms are unfair. Jim Dandy has been published (and unproduced) a long time. A great play; a surefire money-loser...