Word: lostness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newspaper readers sometimes get the impression that lost masterpieces of art turn up continually, and that any old-looking picture in the attic or at an auction may be worth a fortune. The day-after fact: the typical news story about the Rembrandt that Aunt Sophie found in a pushcart usually comes unglued just a few days after it has been front-paged, but by then, it is no longer news. Contributing to the confusion is the fact that art experts generally refuse to challenge such stories, for fear of libel suits. Result: gullible collectors spend thousands each year purchasing...
With Tribune morale at rock bottom, the results of last week's Guild election were inevitable. Indeed. Bill Knowland hardly put up a fight. Said he after the polling: "The vote speaks for itself." Indeed it did: by a 2-to-i margin. Bill Knowland had just lost another election...
Menzies strengthened the powers of arbitration courts, also worked hard for better working conditions and labor-management relations. Result: Australia is now enjoying its quietest industrial relations in 24 years with only 185,000 working days lost from strikes in the first six months...
...Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934 but lost it a year later to James J. Braddock, went to Hollywood where in movies, radio and TV he capitalized on his fighting career; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...magnificent scenery, hate the steaming climate, and loathe the squawks of the white cockatoos; but something of you had been left behind, irrevocably; and you hated to think of the jungle taking over roads and airstrips ... As Virgil makes Aeneas deplore the city he had left and lost forever: iam seges est ubi Troia fuit-'now corn grows where Troy...