Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...British Mrs. Fiske") in St. John Ervine's comedy The First Mrs. Fraser. Pieces passed up by Their Majesties included Shaw's new Apple Cart, Barrie's old Dear Brutus, and a magnificent Gilbert & Sullivan revival sequence at the Savoy Theatre, now sumptuously rebuilt and gone modernist...
However, all of this attempt to acquire equality seems to have gone a little too far. In the first place, women have had centuries of practice in forcing men to ask the proper question at the correct time while the male experience has been confined to merely acting on the hints. Moreover, the less favored of the female sex have built up that great tradition of not beautiful, but nice, so admirably supported by well meaning aunts, while man is merely conceited or ugly. Men have, after all, been fairly patient in bearing with feminine supremacy, and it does seem...
With Nova Scotia gone Wet, Ontario confirmed in wetness, the little province of Prince Edward Island with a population less than Yonkers, N. Y., is the only part of Canada which has not cast off prohibition. U. S. Wets could not forbear to gloat last week. Cried President Henry H. Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...Portland, Me., Willie L. Sanborn has for 17 years gone to a well on the grounds of Pennell Institute to obtain water for his boarders. Recently he was convicted of the larceny of ten quarts of water valued at one dollar. Sentence was suspended; Mr. Sanborn was put on two years' probation...
...gravity that almost became emotional. He told his visitor to hold high the Yale-Harvard brand. Said he: "I am a great admirer of Yale. . . . Together, Yale and Harvard are four times as strong as either one is alone. ... I am an older man than you. I shall be gone long before you. I earnestly hope that whatever you plan may come to fruition. When I am gone, any improvements which you make I know will benefit no less the institution where I was nurtured...