Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spectators said that Mrs. Fraser was in form again to win the title, which she held three times as Alexa Stirling of Atlanta. Spectators approved their surmise the next day when the heavily-heralded Mile. Simone Thion de la Chaume, champion of France, champion of England, lost the first three holes to Mrs. Fraser and the match 3 and 2. But something happened. Mrs. Fraser fiddled away her next match to a little-known Kansas City wife, Miriam Burns Horn. Mrs. Horn, once western champion, won 1 up. Meanwhile Maureen Orcutt, whose name (someone observed) sounds like a hair tonic...
...went into the intensive training stage and some few teams heard the whistle of their opening games. Falling on the Ball. Thousands of boys and young men scowled blackly and flung themselves upon one another. Also, they flung them selves at footballs bouncing on the turf, and lost their tempers. The time-honored opening exercise of football practice (falling on the ball) vexed them...
...Fordham, Captain William Feaster tore a ligament in his shoulder (tackling) and will be lost for early games...
...home and, for purposes of protection only, carries along tall and innocent Alice Kibbe, 17. Alice he finds in a bad house, where she by no means belonged. Vicissitudes carry them to live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...
...nuance were too numerous commendation. Certainly the achievement of the football squad, even under the handicap of mere practice, contrasts sharply with the inability of the Dramatic Club's finest to gain recognition from First National. The yardage gained in clods of earth compensates in great measure for footage lost in film...