Word: lost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French count who finds his future wife, a countess, in the arms of another. He then falls in love with Lupe Velez, a cabaret entertainer dressed up and taught fine manners by the countess, who wants to fool her prospective husband. Miss Velez proves she has not lost her energy. Comtesse Jetta Goudal's weak face and sloping shoulders are in the best idiom of the Second Empire. Best shot: Lupe Velez eating when she isn't hungry...
...clash expected between General Calles' 18,000 Federalistas and an estimated 10,000 Insurrectos under General Jose Gonzalo Escobar, who captured and then lost, earlier in the week, the fourth largest city in Mexico, Monterrey, captured in 1846 by doughty U.S. General Zachary Taylor in a most decisive battle (ultimate result: Texas, New Mexico and California are now United States...
Vera Cruz Falls. The great oil port of Mexico was captured, early in the week, and then lost to federal troops by General Jesus Maria Aguirre, who fled toward Yucatan. At Pennsylvania Military Academy, Chester, Pa., U. S. A., Cadet Leon Aguirre, doughty general's son, said: "Father can take care of himself. He is an experienced campaigner...
...Federal Reserve Board, said Mr. Warburg (in the course of his annual report to International Acceptance Stockholders) has lost control of the money situation by failure to take decisive action before inflation reached its present strength...
...This does not mean that the good schoolboy athlete is necessarily a poor college student, but it does show that the good schoolboy athlete is under a handicap in college, probably because he has lost the proper perspective between studies and athletics. Experience has shown that the average star athlete in school, is an indifferent or, at best, average school student. When he enters college he become a below-the-average or probation student and consequently is not of much use to his team...