Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States were dry long before the war and that the dry Federal Act was but the national and natural expression of that dry local option majority. The people of these same districts are still dry and are not going to change constitution or legislation until they have lost faith in Prohibition as a remedy for the liquor evil. I believe that day will arrive, but I do not think it has arrived...
...daily bread of Jerusalem lost flavor last week, when bakers went on strike to reduce their working hours...
...eight be-knickered, cigaret-smoking golfers retained for the U. S. last week at the Chicago Golf Club. Never in the seven years of Walker Cup history has a British team driven far enough, approached close enough, putted accurately enough to lift the trophy. As few expected, the Britishers lost all but one of the twelve matches. Dentist-Golfer T. A. Torrance, Scotch by birth, English in residence, was the only British winner. Onetime U. S. amateur-U. S. open champion Chick Evans was the only U. S. loser...
...ball toward the green, which was encircled by the gallery. None saw where the ball lighted, save that it plopped somewhere among the spectators. Everyone looked at everyone else. One spectator felt in his pocket, found the ball, in embarrassment dropped it on good ground. Not inexcusably Von Elm lost the hole, but won the match with Dr. (not dental) William Tweddell...
Andre Citroen, French motorman, was again at Deauville Casino calling "banco suivi suivi." During an evening in which he lost $500,000, Madame Citroen kept chiding him. He kept retorting. They became a nuisance, were asked to keep quiet. Said Madame: "Messieurs, surely I have the right to protect my home against a madman...