Word: mislaid
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...apparently a custom in Philadelphia not only to discover that ballots cast for an opponent of the machine are invalid or have been discreetly mislaid in the counting, but to cast votes freely for those who have for some reason or other been unable to come to the polls at all. A Dartmouth undergraduate coming down to Philadelphia for Thanksgiving lamented that he had not been able to get down before to vote for Wilson, only to discover that he had voted for Vare after all. Cases of this sort are multiplying as the investigation of the Committee of Seventy...
...discourages the attention, a mystery is hitched along from Marseilles to Port Said, to Calcutta, to a native prison in the hills, to a river village, to a maharajah's time-encrusted palace in the jungle. Cryptic scribbling in mouldy volumes of Chaucer lead at last to-certain mislaid belongings of the globe-sacking son of Philip of Macedon. Utterly fantastic and gratuitous mystification, with a U. S. adventurer and a rather attractive French wandering man moving in a maze of blind beggars, green lizards, bearded ladies, dengue fever, betel-chewing babus and-most resembling the structure...
There was the gentleman who lost his bag of laundry; the Texan, presumably he came from the Lone Star state, who never saw his .45 automatic again; and the scholar, too, who mislaid his brief case three days in succession, and each day found it waiting for him at the office...
...lost, mislaid or stolen, it will not be replaced; nor will any refund be made; and no unused or surplus portion will be redeemed. When requested to do so, the owner must identify himself by signature or otherwise...
...future will be admitted to Union lectures unless he has his membership card with him. This rule has been found to be necessary because it is not possible to check off on the list of members those men who have forgotten to bring their card or have mislaid it. Guest cards must be secured before the evening of the lecture...