Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...railroads. Colorless, sad Howells, despairing Mark Twain, bitter-black Ambrose Bierce were the successors of Herman Melville, whose grappling with the primeval had been tragic but sublime; of Whitman, whom Mark Twain congratulated on having lived to see the marvels of steam and electricity. "The guts were gone from idealism" and William James offered a "pragmatic aquiescence" to materialism: a philosophy of becoming, not being...
...investigation of the missing ten would be interesting and instractive. A few of them no doubt have died; a few, possibly, have met with some misfortune because of which they have voluntarily dropped out of sigtht; and the rest have gone, for reasons of their own, to distant corners of the earth...
...concessions", he added, "and these will become political whereas up to the present they have only been economic. The Communists will be forced to give up exclusive political control over Russia, which is bound to become a peasant democracy particularly as most of the earmarks of Communism are now gone. The people will want to govern as well as have a hand at other activities...
...failures, lay still, died. Throughout the U. S. tiny bands of comrades mourned. "He was," said the Daily Worker, communist newssheet, "the sole outstanding figure who carried over into our party the very best traditions of the pre-War socialist movement.... We expected to write soon that he had gone to prison because of his loyalty to the cause of the workers. . . . But death does not release its prisoners." Editor Linson of the Chinese Nationalist Daily, news organ of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party), wrote: "We are very sorry that such an able man as C. E. Ruthenberg leaves...
...died alone, at 44, shadowed by broken hopes, crying, "Let's fight on!" His comrades, echoing his cry, shouted of new vigor, new conquests to Communism. They saw one more hope, one more strong leader gone from a cause which, in the U. S., is, at least for the present, hopeless, leaderless...