Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...please print again in TIME the population of the largest cities of the United States! I intended to cut that out, and put in my scrapbook, but TIME, is so popular here that it was gone before I could do so. We read it and then pass it on. I will thank you so much...
...that today schedules are made in secret and our policy has caused European Governments to raise high walls against American manufacturers. Corruption then as now had driven men from Republican Cabinets, only then despoilers were pikers who lined their pockets with thousands, while in our day the booty has gone into millions. Privilege then extorted hundreds from the pockets of taxpayers instead of the thousands now demanded and given...
...Pittsburgh two On Leong laundrymen crumpled up dead on the sidewalk with blood bubbling from wet bullet holes. The assassin faded smoothly back into the blue, gone...
...common prayer before Gypsy Smith. In Chicago in 1889 he sought to oust the devil from the red-light district with a blaring-singing-praying midnight parade. Next day, a hundred tramps and a few daughters of joy came to his co-workers to be cleansed, Gypsy Smith having gone on to the next town. During the World War, he worked with the Y. M. C. A. at the front, went through four gas attacks, was decorated by King George...
...attract advertisers to the American Mercury, Mr. Mencken has had his shrewdest and cruelest fling of all at journalism: "The American literati of tomorrow will probably come out of advertising-offices instead of out of newspaper offices as in the past. The advertising writers, in fact, have already gone far ahead of the reporters. They choose their words more carefully; they are better workmen, if only because they have more time for good work. I predict formally that they will produce a great deal of the sound American literature of tomorrow...