Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...models of familiar pleasure cars, there were two* new makes. There were evidences of factory expansion and a renewed emphasis on quality production at the same time. Only one price-cut was made a point of, and that by a firm (Dodge) into whose product there has never gone anything but high-grade material and workmanship. The Chevrolet Co. planned to spend half a million just on speeding up its distribution. Up and down the line, company presidents were in agreement with their compeer of Nash Motors: "In the automobile industry we look for a big year...
...missing names was a reminder of how completely times had changed. Gifford Pinchot, the young forester whom President Roosevelt supported so ardently in his struggle for conservation of forests, is now fighting other battles single-handedly in Pennsylvania. Henry Cabot Lodge, Roosevelt's close friend, has but recently gone to his grave. Senator Beveridge is no longer Senator, but hopes to be so again. Many others have come and gone from the British embassy at Washington since Bryce was there. Herrick is now the veteran Ambassador to France, where another? Henry White?was then. Frank W. Mondell, who clashed with...
...himself was then put on the stand: "I deny under oath that I committed the offense with which I am charged, or that I attempted to bribe the police officer who unwarrantably arrested me . . . I am writing a book dealing with vice conditions in the West End, and had gone to Hyde Park to gather data at first hand. I call the Court's attention to the fact that my works, Queer People and Diversions of a Prime Minister, are well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon...
...yearly for devising the "daily dozen" phonograph records; the money educates two girls. The royalties of his 20 books, from his many surgical inventions, the fees from some 15,000 surgical operations and 277,000 patients in the sanitarium, all his income except a bare living have gone to support his lifelong doctrine of "not doctoring, not surgery, but education." He supports the Race Betterment Foundation, of which he is founder and president; the Battle Creek College which he created out of his sanitarium dietetic and nursing classes...
...quite apparent that Mr. Depew had lost his heart, if he had not sold his soul, to healthily, vigorously mature '89. So that even were a '56 reunion patched up after all, they could hardly hope to find their old classmate the contented, wholehearted companion of years gone...