Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just lost my last sou," she said a little huskily, "how does Your Highness always, always...
...quarter finals, Frank Shields, the U. S. Junior Champion who lives in Brooklyn and has a serious face, beat famed Jacques Brugnon, the veteran of the French contingent, 7-5, 6-1, 6-0. Abruptly people realized that Shields had not yet, in his six tournament matches, lost a single set. Would he beat Cochet in the semifinals? Basing their predictions upon the failure of previous predictions, the experts admitted that he might. Shields didn't. In the finals, Hunter met Cochet...
Voigt and Perkins were fighting it out a little harder. The gallery was rooting for the quiet lanky Lancashireman, who never spoke except to his caddie whom he called "laddie." They saw Voigt go one down in the morning round; in the afternoon, Voigt lost the sixth hole when his ball landed in a brook at the foot of the green. He kept on losing holes after that and the match was over on the 14th after they both played in from the rough around the green to halve the hole. Perkins, for the first time since he had started...
Died. Patrick J. ("Paddy") Lynch, 75, famed fireman, hero of the General Slocum disaster; after several years' illness; in Manhattan. In 1904 the General Slocum, filled with Sunday School picnickers, caught fire in Manhattan's East River. The lives of 1,031 were lost. Fireman Lynch rowed zealously back and forth between the blazing steamer and the shore, saved 41 persons...
Edwardian. This son, Nicholas, married a spirited girl who brought to Babyon Court a virile zest for life, but lost it in the murky shadows of the portrait gallery. Frightened by the black sneer of Hariot and Isabella, she rushed from the gallery, fell stumbling down the broad staircase, and lost her unborn child. She never had another, for Nicholas, last of the Babyons, was old and bitter and resigned, given to eerie moods...