Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glanced sharply from side to side like a bird. Let the people stare at her if they wanted to- let them think she was crazy; she'd never tell. Why should she? They'd never believe her. Sam wouldn't know her now-teeth all gone, face wrinkled, hand turned brown. Let them look at her. The college scholar was telling them the truth. She was that golden girl. She was Becky Thatcher, the flower of Missouri...
Play had not gone far before major casualties occurred. Hammering hooks, ripping off slices, hewing up divots like graveslabs, ponderous Cyril Tolley of England duffered out of the tournament with a suddenness and completeness that boded ill to Britain's Walker Cup chances later on, for Tolley is the British team's captain. But then U. S. Captain Robert Gardner spent a morning "hitting the ball on the roof" (i. e., topping shots) and dishonors were even. As one despatch paraphrased it: "His driving was singular and putting plural...
...Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against his travels, had it when he came back for Danzel?but she was gone with her father, Shadrach, to California of the '50s. Happy the man, indeed! It took a staunch lad to go that journey, but Guy went it, by Panama. For months he roamed the roaring, gold-dusted country asking the cream and scum of 40 nations, not for metal or favors...
...strong little sons move freely about the town, one in particular, Walt, the second oldest, bringing home much news of teamsters and ferryboatmen, or?the gravity gone from his ruddy-brown face, his tar-black hair cocked with excitement?of how the Marquis de Lafayette picked him up and kissed...
...Only the mother, Louisa, senses his new, deeper travail. She leaves Walt more alone than ever, except to put food where he can get it and unlatch the kitchen window when he is gone to wander in the night, during months of vision, revision, destruction and creation, months of the purgation, despair, and finally the vehement triumph of a man giving his whole self to his country and his kind...