Word: gone
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...late spiritualist husband Lady Doyle declared: "I happen to know that [since his death] he could have gone very high, but deliberately remained behind in order to keep contact with the earth and influence the spiritualist movement." Thus did she refute recent testimony by a spiritualist medium that the soul of Sir Arthur was "earthbound...
...adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom had a criminal record. When the dust of research settled, Herr Lange's results seemed to show that Galton was right, though Galton had gone too far. Says Introducer J. B. S. Haldane: "An analysis of the cases shows not the slightest evidence of freedom of the will in the ordinary sense of that word. . . . Taking the record of any criminal, we could predict the behavior of a monozygotic (identical: born from the same fertilized...
...Gone Away...
...William Austin Wadsworth, Master of the Genesee Valley Hounds. One of the best bits is from Major Wadsworth's A Bible: "Although you may be convinced that it improves wheat to ride over it, the opinion is not diffused or popular, and the fact that some fool has gone ahead is no excuse whatever. . . . Don't gallop after the fox by yourself. If you caught him alone he might bite you. Don't 'give tongue on a woodchuck. It will cause you humiliation. There is a difference in the tails...
...Fawcett launched upon a largely successful series of publishing ventures, assisted by his brothers Roscoe and (the late) Harvey. The first, True Confessions, began by giving actual confessions of criminals and other big figures in the news (e.g. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw), but later turned to the usual anonymous-girl-gone-wrong narrative. At its sexiest stage it claimed 400,000 circulation, but a mistaken (and temporary) effort to "clean it up" under the name of Fawcett's nearly ruined the book. It is doing well again (230,000). Judge Ben Lindsey is a contributor...