By 1930, it was possible for Macmillan to publish a book called, simply, "Colossal Blunders of the War, " a history of 1914-1918 made up of nothing but martial mistakes, organized by nationality and with sarcastic remarks inserted at the appropriate points.
This week, he has made much of a "nothing to lose" attitude, and in the last tournament of a disappointing season in which his ranking dipped as low as 41st, his carefree demeanour was understandable.
It is a startling comedown for a guy who made something out of nothing.
While directors like Oliver Stone and Robert Altman cast him in their films, nothing really made much of an impact.
Foreign Secretary Mr Hague told the BBC other European countries had made "nothing like enough of an effort" to meet UK concerns.
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The show used the shabbiest possible effects, plus a fly-by-night attitude toward narrative logic, although its low budget was as much a feature as a bug: it made something out of nothing, much the way Abed and Troy constructed their Dreamatorium engine out of cardboard tubes and a funnel.
Six months ago Josh Stevens found himself being led through the streets of Chicago in a horse-drawn carriage, wearing nothing but a suit made of paper.
Michael Greenberg watched for years as his father, Robert, though inventing nothing himself, made a lot of money on other people's ideas.
Nothing has even made it out of committee yet, so the actual passage of a patent reform bill still seems quite far off, but there is definite talk going on in Washington as to what patent reform would look like, and there seems to be enough common ground for some good to come of it.
An hour passed before rescue could reach us, although the memory is one of timelessness -- the world had ceased to be, nothing made sense and my mind was trying desperately to process every aspect of what I was experiencing.
Reports that these people knew nothing of the pay deal made them look at best other-worldly, at worst negligent.
The couple, who spent a lifetime building up the collection, made it a condition of their will that nothing be revealed about them or their reasons for building up the collection.
In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10% of his salary, and that's crazy.
They are often nothing of the sort, a mountain made out of a molehill by reporters desperate for a story.
They said they were aware criticisms had been made of the investigation, but they had nothing but praise for the police.
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One who made himself and not just his fortune out of nothing.
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Shay Given made a string of saves but he could do nothing to stop Gianni Zuiverloon's snap-shot and Simon Cox ran clear to make it 2-1 soon after.
Nokia, which made little or no mention of 4G and said nothing about network deals at its New York event last week, was obviously keeping its powder dry.
It is now apparent that Lockheed never properly integrated Martin Marietta after their merger in 1995, to say nothing of 39 smaller acquisitions it has made in the past seven years.
Imagine what Britain's nothing-is-sacred tabloids would have made of such a tale.
In my professional experience, the overwhelming majority (like 99%) of employees when made aware of serious wrongdoing involving their employer will do nothing.
But last month, in a 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court agreed with Janet Reno's Justice Department that there was nothing in the text of the law that made it okay to lie without embellishment.
The government official made it sound as if it was all routine, nothing out of the ordinary really.
Nothing has replaced the Advantage program, which was made up of mostly families.
This is nothing more than the average of the rate of profit being made by everyone.
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Nothing says "former Soviet" like a gigantic public building made of concrete, and the bunker-like Linnahall certainly fits the bill.
He got a lot of attention because he was new, but nothing really made him stand out, NPR's Don Gonyea tells Robert Siegel.
Church officials subsequently claimed that the pope knew nothing of the bishop's unsavoury views and later Benedict made a strong condemnation of Holocaust denial.
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