Word: recoverable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Let the anniversary of the morning of the day as one of the greatest humiliations and losses of my life. I lost my watch to day. We first went down the lake. Then to Milan in the cars. At Milan we did all we could to recover my watch but...
"3) Forbid the useless throwing of the ball in order to discolor it or to help the pitcher to recover his poise.
* I. e., a "war of revenge" upon Germany to recover Alsace-Lorraine, which had been seized by Germany from France in 1871.
All happened as arranged. At an early hour on Sunday morning, just late enough to miss the Sunday morning papers and in time to give the reporters a full day to write a florid account of the event for Monday's packets, Mlle. Roseray waded into a small and...
But were the reporters, when they arrived, as stupid as Press-agent Strouse had fondly hoped? They were, with one exception, more stupid. Forgetting that the most obvious moment for such a publicity stunt was precisely the moment at which it had occurred, they sleepily made up their minds that...