Word: gone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flaying the Supreme Court as "the economic dictator of the U. S.," stormy little Senator Glass declared that it "has gone far afield from its original functions and has constituted itself a court in economics." He recalled the fact that as an Associate Justice Mr. Hughes in 1914 had written the famed Shreveport decision which Senator Glass claimed destroyed the last vestige of State control of freight rates.* North Dakota's Senator Nye chimed in: "The sooner citizens get rid of this idea that a judge is more honorable than a legislator, the clearer will become our perception...
...studies. Monahan stated that the Golden Bears had no plans for intersectional contests in the future and asked if Harvard would send a team out to the coast. Mr. Bingham replied that there wasn't the remotest chance of it. Harvard does not believe in intersectional games and has gone on record to that effect with Yale . . . : Judging from the Harvard Director's conversation the crew situation on the western littoral interested him not a little. He saw the four varsity and three freshman crews of the University of Washington working out under Coach Ulbrickson, who impressed Mr. Bingham...
...having a guilty conscience about taking a holiday at this time was the presence in Florida of many another famed vacationist. Citizen Calvin Coolidge was gently relaxing from his literary labors at Mount Dora where he and Mrs. Coolidge were the guests of Capt. Archie Hurlburt. Mr. Coolidge had gone fishing only once in a month, had made no use of Capt. Hurlburt's outdoor swimming pool...
...These last years he has been making the "real money"?two or three hundred thousand a year perhaps?that he promised himself, when he left the Coolidge cabinet. He has not made it by much bartering and foregathering with his fellow man. Day after day he has gone to a skyscraper club for lunch?alone, or possibly with his partner and son, Charles Evans Hughes Jr.* with whom he has returned quickly to the office. Even on his frequent trips to Washington, where many a public man would be flattered to be his host, he has followed his lonely...
When he arrived at the Union station, onlookers were shocked at his appearance. All color had gone from his deflated cheeks. His eyelids drooped listlessly. He was unresponsive to sights and sounds. Dr. Francis Randall Hagnar, his physician, assured newsmen that Mr. Taft was in no pain. Helped out of the railroad car by four attendants, the sick man was placed in a rolling chair, too small for him. The onetime Chief Justice showed a faint flicker of a smile. News cameramen pressed rudely about him, exploded their flashlights before his unseeing eyes...