Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infecting live stock with rabies. At Bear Valley, Ore., Raymond Vancil's horse, a grass-eater, suddenly tried to bite his master's leg, then dashed through three wire fences, before the man could rope, throw and kill it. Near Izee, Ore., Elmer Angell's cow, gone mad, chased him off his hay wagon and into his house...
...survey of Florida: "Business conditions in the state are improving rapidly and recovery from the disaster of a year ago should be complete by the end of 1927. . . . Farmers are busy. Those who became salesmen or cut down their orange groves to make subdivisions of their farms have gone back to cultivation and are producing commodities. A general feeling pervades the state that many northern banks are not informed, are pessimistic...
After Harvard and Heidelberg he taught in Iowa, never marking attendance, always forgetting the drab scene and his lecture subjects to stray into ancient Greece. But one day his blackboard bore a note: "No class today. I've gone to war." He had met Rudyard Kipling at sea. Twenty years later he had renounced war, rebuked Kipling...
...Iowa, where his family had gone in wagons, he felt the vast age and oneness of life. It amused him to say that since his direct ancestors numbered millions 30 generations ago, therefore he was descended from the entire English-speaking race. Running up his family tree eight branches he would drop down two and land on Benjamin Franklin, "the bourgeois." The Nile, he would say, is an upstart compared to the Mississippi. Five-toed little Eohippus lived for him in his farm horse, Daisy...
...Labor Party. They met it magnificently. The editor of "Tailor and Cutter" proclaimed that the guests at the wedding were sartorially unassailable. Not only did they wear coats and neckties, they wore cutaways and cravais. The editor was tremendously relieved: "Labor has grown up, has assumed responsibility and gone to a good tailor. . . . . There were leading Conservatives and Liberals present with lords and men of great possessions, but labor held its own in the cut of its morning coat and the tilt and gloss...