Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time this cabinet was lost. Then one day James Boswell's great-great-grandson, James Boswell Talbot, Sixth Baron Talbot de Malahide, visited his Scottish estates, the Castle of Auchinleck. Rummaging in a closet, his hand found a peculiar trunklike cabinet, made of a dark and heavy wood. In its drawers and cubbyholes there were a lot of old papers, so soft they made no noise when Lord Talbot shuffled them together and lifted them out of the box. Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk. Then...
Herr Strauss jumped from his seat, hurdled on to the stage. "He was leaning forward," wrote Olin Downes, "exhorting the orchestra, molding every phrase and gradation, spurring and reining that band at will, leading it up to climaxes of shattering intensity. . . . At the end every one lost his head except a newspaper photographer. De Grignon rushed frantically from the wings. He and Strauss fondled, kissed and babbled over each other. The photographer caught them on the fly and forced them to freeze in that attitude for a moment . . . the two men were genuinely angered...
...British Army-in-India polo team lost once again to U. S. horsemen. After fighting their way through fierce preliminary matches, the Britains met Thomas Hitchcock Jr. in the finals of the U. S. open championship and with him rode defeat. Hitchcock's play beat Britain in the International matches; Hitchcock's Sands Point team now holds the open title, winning in the finals 11-7. On Hitchcock's four were W. A. Harriman, J. C. Cowdin, U. S. International team substitute, and L. E. Stoddard, former Internationalist. Injury robbed Britain of a better chance. Leading...
...McNamee sang soprano. Now 34, he has long since lost his high notes but still sings in concert as a baritone, always including in his program "The Fields O' Ballydare," simple Irish ballad. But he has little time for concerts. Things happen fast in the U. S., and, wherever in the U. S. anything nationally important is happening, Graham McNamee sits there telling the world...
...that he had won the fight. Dempsey knocked Tunney down. By the rules of the contest he should have walked immediately to a neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked out after ten seconds. Actually, Tunney was down 14. Tunney insists that his head was clear after the first few seconds and that he could...