Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kaufman conceived the idea that things in Florida had gone far enough. They must be kidded. Therefore he put his plot out in the sunshine and set the Marxes to splashing around in it. Hotels, real estate and climate are treated with extreme irreverence. Somewhere in the first act there is a diamond robbery and somewhere in the second a minstrel show. The amazing Marxes contribute scene after scene of rattle-brained revelry. Groucho (with the cigar) and Harpo (he says nothing) are the principal disturbances. Mr. Berlin has contributed two excellent tunes, "A Little Bungalow" and "Florida...
...Then there is the American Negro probably the most slang productive race in the world. It was the Southern darky who first spoke of his tired and aching feet as 'dogs'. This word has gone through a hundred stages of development and its ramifications and embellishments are to be found in the daily conversation of many people today. Slang is the effort to economize in the use of words--to make a single one do the work of several sentences--as well as to be funny...
...Christian Science Monitor: "Just now the college game appears to have gone beyond the control of the educational authorities, and there is a clamor in some quarters to curb the sport and place in on a national basis...
...Faculty talk of the spirity, that gone...
Preamble. "The conflict is one between the old and the new, emphasized by the sharp adjustments required in a period immediately following a great war. Such conflicts of thought have gone on from the beginning. They will go on until the end. It is in many ways desirable that they should go on, even in armies, subject always, of course, to that essential discipline without which an army becomes a mob. What is needed, is a more generous appreciation by each side of the difficulties of the other side. On each side there is need of patience with what seems...