Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked him to go, but he had refused,, being weary and wanting to go to bed; that he first knew of the affair when some one drove hastily up to the White House and informed him; that then he went immediately to his dying father; further, that, had he gone, the murder might possibly have been averted, since he, youngest of the party and entering the box last, naturally would have had a seat next the door and might have interfered when Booth rudely intruded. If you are in error, please correct in the interest of accurate history...
...ranch, the natural rugged beauty of which he had been careful to preserve much as he preserved his own natural strength and powers from the debility that riches and refinement often breed. He had started life as a poor boy, an English book-binder's 13th child. He had gone to the public schools of Rushville, Ill., worked on the family farm, then gone, at 18, to be his half-brothers' office boy on the Detroit Tribune for $3 a week...
...transition form school to college has long been an outstanding problem of education. Many suggestions have been proffered and accepted by those at the helm to make the break less abrupt, the Yard walls less distressing. As time has gone on, however, educators have realized that the real solution to the Gordian knot lay in the students themselves...
...which let us chant an antiphonal amen. And continue. For continue we must, now that Dreiser has given us the big rhythm. But perhaps we are hitting our man too many times on the same blood-clot. Nevertheless we remember that there have been in years a gone double-decker novels whose power increased with their size. Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil" was such a one; it captured a dinky little Nobel Prize or something of the sort. Then there was Fielding's "Tom Jones"--pretty good for an old-timer, what...
...with it I have found much that is delightful. And it is for the sake of this much that we can overlook the even more which is relatively flat and unpointed. Miss Lowell in the course of her writing has shot a great many shafts, many of which have gone astray, but those that have found the mark have done it with a surpassing nicety and surety...