Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sunken S-4 "lost" during the rough weather that prevented diving, causing further delay until the wreck was found again and rebouyed...
...only player alive who has run out a tournament match "from spot," not permitting his opponent (Hagenlacher, 1925) a turn at the table. Cochran was not unduly proud; once in championship play he ran 407 points. Neither played as well as he knows how. Cochran, stocky, abrupt, lost the world's championship to slim, catlike Schaefer, 1,500 points...
...light dawns. The last fighter depicted is Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill, fruitful and saved. The author disbelieves in the theory that tuberculosis produces genius, cites his cases to show what can be done despite the handicap, in the hope (presumably) of encouraging countless patients who have lost hope...
...played Weber's Oberon overture, Frederick Delius's C Minor Concerto, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Tschaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. The overture and the Tschaikovsky fragments were best: the concerto with Pianist Reginald Boardman for soloist was soso; but the splendor of the Beethoven was lost. It had slipped away between individual passages and spread into nothingness. The audience, however, was kind. Loudly it clapped the virtuosity of the 70 trim players, emphatically it approved the gesticulations of Conductor Leginska, gave the verdict common to enterprises of the gentler sex: That (for women) they had done...
...watch the same Egyptian princess; to Joy, 12, who had never in all her life seen her mother "dressed up"; to Louise Homer herself who was singing at the Metropolitan for the first time in eight seasons. For the audience it was just as memorable, for Contralto Homer had lost little of her vocal power and none of the grand manner that projected every little gesture to the furthermost corners of the house...