Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...affairs, being less emotional, are less noticed, but still there is usually some mention of Robert Morris, who is described as having lent large sums of money to the Continental Government and later spending many years in a debtor's jail. Last week in Manhattan the Morris story was gone into in some detail, owing to its connection with an even more neglected Revolutionary figure, one Haym Salomon. Mr. Salomon was a Jewish banker in Philadelphia. To him Jews wished to erect a statue in Madison Square, Manhattan. When the Municipal Art Commission refused to approve the statue...
...must feel that it is to Ireland's benefit that he has gone. He was known...
Manhattan newsgatherers went last week, as they have gone annually for many a year, to interview Nikola Tesla on his birthday. This year it was his 71st birthday but Nikola Tesla said nothing that he had not said on his 61st birthday?or his 41st for that matter...
...cathedral town of St. Andrews, Scotland, went daft over a youth of 19 whose serious face was just beginning to sprout the mutton-chop whiskers then in fashion. His name was Tom Morris Jr. With his long-necked clubs, lumpy balls and tarn o'shanter, he had gone over to Prestwick on the west coast andi for the third year running, whipped all the golfers in the land for the British Open Championship. They gave him the champion's belt, to keep permanently. The next year they did not bother to hold the tournament...
...Things? fresh tobacco and old pipes, bottles of acids and a violin case? seemed to be in disorder, but one had a feeling that their owner could find them, even though blindfolded. Dr. Watson and Billy, the page, were worrying around the room because the owner, Sherlock Holmes, had gone to bed with instructions that he wanted dinner "at seven-thirty, the day after tomorrow...