Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arrests and blacklists the poor devil gone wrong, but lets the moving picture houses, vaudeville theatres, dancing halls, and many other places where corruption is insidiously displayed and methodically preached and could be had for the asking, have their own way. Or does not Mr. Chase know that even church dances contribute to corruption? He should have come with me to a Methodist dance where a member of the church, a beautiful young lady, half naked, with hay around her waist, danced, personifying the cave woman...
There have been, however--perhaps there still are--other times and places when Defoe would have felt very much at home. The old West now gone, the West of the Mississippi with its great side-wheelers and niggers and roustabouts and plenitude of suckers has produced its own school of chroniclers. By the works of its sons do we know it. And faro and monte are not unknown mysteries even in the modern and effete east; we have met the southern planter and the river boat gambler before, and still do we, their unworthy descendants, endeavor to fill on kings...
...Your husband has gone down to bathe in the stream," Manuela told the expressionless Vera...
...work of the Social Service Committee has gone along as usual this year, with the exception of one innovation which has proved a very effective change. This change involves the use of six assistant Social Service Secretaries, who have divided up the supervision of the various settlement houses, seeing that our representatives there are keeping up with their work. These Secretaries also held office hours during the fall in the Phillips Brooks House, Signing up men for the work. These Secretaries also held office hours during the fall in the Phillips Brooks House, signing up men for the work. This...
...member of the Watch and Ward Society--"What in it?" Well, I'll permit you, but on one condition: that you tell me just why I met so many people with cameras and kodaks and the urge to use them. Before I had gone two blocks I felt like the man in the moving picture who wanted to find someone in a Ford. Fords--I mean cameras, were everywhere. Little girls tripped by with Brownie No. A's under Easter sleeves. And I saw an old man, Emeritus Professor of Photography perhaps, lugging along a huge thing that I took...