Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Investigations. Eight investigations to fix the blame for the disaster were under way last week, by state, county and city authorities. Mayor George E. Cryer of Los Angeles said: "Los Angeles cannot restore the lives lost, but the damages should be paid. . . . We of Los Angeles must face the responsibility." Fruit growers and ranchers, bitter, agreed with the mayor...
...Dolly landed at Manhattan last week with her new Dominion husband, Mortimer Davis Jr., tobacco scion. Asked about the amazing luck of herself and twin-sister Jennie, at the baccarat tables in Cannes (TIME, March 12), Mrs. Davis ruefully admitted that luck has turned against Jennie, who has now lost the whole of a spectacular win totaling...
...significance of Ibsen in Norway cannot be realized unless it is remembered that he was of Danish, not Norwegian, stock and chose to pass much of his manhood and old age away from Norway on the Continent of Europe. Thus he came more readily to achieve international fame, but lost touch with Norwegians who were then flocking in rapturous admiration around a playwright-demagogue who is scarcely known outside of Norway, Bjornstjerne Bjornson, "The Old Bear...
Lady Mary is, blithe and blither, on her way. Miss Mackay, with Capt. Hinchliffe and their golden-winged monoplane Endeavor, is in the limbo of the lost...
Twelve Thousand. Everyone knows that the web of history is spun by a spider, that wars are lost with a horseshoe nail. Therefore it is not hard to be convinced by this gentle and determined fable wherein Bruno Frank explains why it was that a greedy German prince did not sell 12,000 of his peasants to fight for England in the War of the Revolution. Piderit, the prince's secretary, is a wise, gloomy and sardonic patriot who does not wish to see these helpless mercenaries, among them his two brothers, driven away to fight a foreign...