Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moment. Suave, but inflexible, Mr. Williams replied that the owners demand "revision" (lengthening) of the miners' working day as a preliminary to any compromise whatsoever. . . . Ensued complete deadlock before the peace negotiations had even begun. The negotiants bowed formally to one another, dispersed. All hope of peace seemed gone. Then 17,000 Nottingham and Derby coal miners broke suddenly with the Miners' Federation, accepted an offer from the Bolsover Colliery Co. to resume work at their former wages, agreed to labor 7½ hours a day. Though capitulation by 17,000 miners out of a striking...
...Read, on Chesapeake bay; their chicken-stealing, arrest, abduction of a judge, capture of a ferryboat, and highly improbable treasure hunt, are matters for the thrice-fortunate reader to follow alone. The Significance being, simply, that the commonplace has suddenly, with sublime and innocent vulgarity, comic pedantry, unflagging ebullience, gone stark, raving romantic. Here is one book, at least, for which Autumn, 1926, is destined to be memorable. The Author, born in Bay City, Mich., 33 years ago, has been a newspaperman ever since he grew up. Detroit, St. Louis, and more lately Baltimore...
...offshore breeze. Soon after breakfast time, the beachward procession began-Port Darwin merchants cool in their white ducks; bronzed " 'roos" ("Kangaroos," i.e. Australians) from the cattle country; darker aborigines shuffling along in silent excitement; cooing Chinese in bright pajamas. They watched the horizon all morning. Some had gone home for midday tiffin, but most remained, chattering, scanning, pondering, when a school urchin jumped forward, his eyes bulging, his rigid forefinger jabbing northwestward. "I see 'um!" he cried. First it was a mosquito-like speck over the ocean, then an ephemeral insect frame, then a droning, then a roaring...
Bounding out of bed, dressing impeccably, packing his suitcase, giving instructions to his chauffeur-whom he had gone to Philadelphia to find-vivacious young Publisher Vanderbilt then sped off for Los Angeles, eager for a fresh start on his already eventful career...
...terrible afternoon. Peoria batsmen had knocked 27 safe hits, trudged around the bases to score 23 runs. And Springfield batsmen had made 22 safe hits; had frequently been obliged to take their bases on balls; had worn their cleats down to buttons scoring 33 runs. Pitchers had come and gone with kaleidoscopic effect, tiring the eyes. The outfielders of the two teams had chased, collectively, ten home runs, four three-base hits, seven doubles. There had been only eight errors. The fences were sagging, arms ached, heads spun. The 56-run game was said to be a record for organized...