Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longing for his lost youth, sold his soul to the Devil. The Devil rejuvenated the old man and helped him seduce a young girl. Deserted and with child, the girl took refuge in a cathedral, where demons drove her mad. She killed her child and went to prison. There the young-old man visited her again. Taking refuge in prayer, she saved her own soul from the Devil. Angels came and rejoiced. Her seducer, young no more, had to go to Hell to pay the Devil's bargain. . . . President and Mrs. Coolidge, and the better part of distinguished Washington...
...Into the "ayes" lobby filed 205 members, equally assorted. From the gallery looked down in consternation the impotent Bishops. Their three-to-one victory in the Lords had turned to a bitter four-to-five defeat in the Commons. . . . For a moment the vote's shattering impact seemed lost upon 77-year-old Randall Thomas Davidson, Primate of All England, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then great tears gushed from his eyes, sobs issued from his throat. Slowly he was led away by the Right Honorable and Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Primate of England, Archbishop of York. The labors...
...International Acceptance Bank, Inc. lost approximately $1,000 last week by shipping $1,000,000 in gold coins to England. But thereby the bank gained the prestige of being the first U. S. institution since 1914 to send gold to England as a transaction in foreign money exchange...
...Mitchell '28 and W. V. King '28 are the only members of the team this fall who will be lost by graduation. The remaining members of the team who will report for the picture include Captain J. L. Reid '29, Leslie Flaksmann '29, and J. O. Wildes '29, winners of major sports letters this year; and R. G. Luttman '29, winner of a minor "H" this year...
...progress of the wanderer's roller skates? Who would not weep to see him, lightly skimming along the boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those who are enjoying the advantages of the Reading. Period should spoil their books, lest, in fact, the Widener steps should become impracticably icy, that the Vagabond is leaving and for other reasons...