Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea was to prevent dishonest motorists from using one set of tags for two cars. Previously a motorist would explain he had lost...
...Minister, fidgeted nervously between his sponsors, Lord Parmoor and Lord Ashfield, who introduced him to the assembled Peers. After his sponsors he quickly mumbled the Peers' oath into his beard, was glad to start back to his seat. His nervousness was so contagious that all three Lords got lost among the benches, had to be rescued by the colorful Garter King of Arms, who looks like the Jack of Hearts...
Everywhere in Germany flags were at half-mast. Newspapers were heavily bordered in black. Der Tag printed pictures of the lost cities of Danzig, Posen and Strasbourg festooned with chains...
...week anti-tobacco leagues and anti-cigaret societies pointed to young King Zog of Albania as a frightful warning. Having smoked a small carload of cigarets (coarse, loose-rolled Macedonias) in the past year,* King Zog developed such a cough that his Italian physician announced that he had completely lost his voice. King Zog was dumb. Alarming news that the dumb Zog's ailment might be cancer of the throat caused European chancelleries to turn anxious eyes on Albania. Despite its bachelor king, Albania is already an Italian protectorate to all intents and purposes. Diplomats feared that the death...
Frank Jay Gould of Nice, France, son of the late famed U. S. Railroad Pioneer Jay Gould, was gloomy last week. He read statistics showing that his Casino de la Mediterranee, gambling establishment for which he paid more than $5,000,000, had lost $800,000 in the past five months...