Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Suddenly the two foxes began to interweave their trails. The mongrel and aristocratic canine pursuers became hopelessly entangled and started fighting among themselves. Scandalized, the Surrey Union Huntsmen rode up and tried to disperse the mongrel pack by a drastic and ungentle plying of whips Their morning had gone simply blotto.* Their tempers were up, and mongrel hides offered a safe issuance for spleen. It did not occur to them that the whelps might belong to anybody...
...Briand spoke honeyed words: "The Spirit of Locarno has entered my Cabinet. We are unanimous. Everything has gone off with perfect cordiality...
Just what had "gone off" was made explicit by a unanimously indorsed Cabinet Communique...
...permanently drunk. ... I experienced the greatest difficulty in trying to get a divorce, because the Soviet Divorce Commissariat closed every day at noon. ... It was impossible to get Sergei to arise and accompany me at such an hour. ... If the Commissariat had been open at midnight, he would have gone willingly...
...George Jean Nathan, occasionally enters the territory where angels fear to tread. In his last group of clinical notes he disputes no less a person then a gentleman and writer, now too often slighted, one Quintus, Horatius Flaccus of Rome and the Sabine Hills. This Flaccus, whose poetry has gone into several editions, even being used as a text for stylists, once amiably asserted that there was truth in wine. Mr. Nathan objects: there is no truth in wine...