Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only man present in an emergency when two cars of a moving train had to be uncoupled, a distinction which cost him a leg. Watching him stump cheerily about the hall, coralling his Cook County forces, delegates reserve their sympathy for Oklahoma's Gore, who lost both eyes as a child, one by a playmate's stick, the other by an arrow from a crossbow...
...Many ye-ears ago-I lost my hea-art-in California-but I have lost-my VOICE-in Kansas City...
...misfortune was made complete when Fate snatched from him his wife . . . lost when the Yacht Lucullus sank in collision with the British Steamer Adria off Constantinople harbor...
Alabama's curious Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope. Senator Trammel emerged untrammeled. He beat Governor Martin by some 30,000 votes. Anti-Smith convention delegates were likewise elected. And, in the Fourth Congressional District, U. S. Representative William J. Sears lost out to Tradition as embodied in the 43-year-old daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, "The Little Commoner." A War nurse, Chautauqua lecturer, energetic personality, Mrs. Owen laid stress upon her own abilities rather than her father's fame...
...Germany to fly through the Arctic circle. But he was alive and insane in the frozen wilderness; his plane had been forced down and his mechanic had committed suicide after three years of hardships. Twelve more years passed; Captain Ramper's hair grew long, covered his body; he lost the power of articulate speech. Then some fishermen discovered him. They thought that he was a strange breed of polar ape. He was clapped into a cage, taken back to Germany, sold to a dime museum. A Professor Barbazin suspects that there is a human spark beneath the coat...