Word: losers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children and satyrs, drawn loosely in dancing lines or painted with soft smears of cool color, sang and played pipes, swam, fished, ate dinner and slept under the trees. The one warlike note was a comic-strip series of sketches showing a duel between centaurs, which ended with the loser crumpled across a broken arrow and the horned winner looking downcast. The figures were almost all distorted, but never cruelly so. The surprising twists of their bodies seemed to spring from inner drunkenness rather than artistic rage. Picasso had pulled and twisted their limbs like taffy, but in making them...
...Indianapolis, there is always more excited talk about the man who might have won the famed "500 Mile" auto race than the man who actually wins. Last week the most prominent loser was carefree Duke Nalon, an old hand at jockeying high-powered racing cars at blurring speed...
...England's St. Anne's-on-Sea, Atlanta's little Louise Suggs, daughter of an old professional baseball player, added the women's British golf championship to her collection, which includes the U.S. title. The loser: Scotland's Jean Donald, on the last green...
Brainard completed the 75-yard stint, which required almost a minute and a half, but when he rose to the surface for air he was unable to breathe, and sank to the bottom unconscious. Henry S. Birdseye '50, loser of the bet, rushed for aid from a pool supervisor, who dove in to recover the victim...
...jockey, he has an agent to make his riding engagements. Arcaro's agent, Melvin ("Bones") La Boyne, has an easier time of it than most. Because it costs no more to hire the best jockey (a flat-rate $50 for a winning mount on big tracks,** $25 for a loser), trainers seek out Bones...