Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Griffith has brought "That Royle Girl" and just why he has done it is still open to doubt. Supposing that Mr. Griffith is still capable of another "Birth of a Nation," it might be well for him to hunt around for a story. As it is he has gone to work with W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster and a lot of wind machines. It may be even possible that the wind machines were borrowed from other sets, because it seems impossible that a normal supply could create such a fiendish storm. Mr. Griffith doesn't content himself with a mere cyclone...
...current "New Republic" are a welcome change. He too is a Bostonian, yet he does not betray his old place. Instead he tries to understand and to judge wisely. "Boston", he says, "is like Harvard College twenty years from now. It is living on a reputation that is gone." And though Harvard College in twenty years will without doubt be far from such decadence, the undergraduate who has studied Boston at all can catch his meaning. Boston is in a sense "put away in lavender". And it sometimes seems as though she were living on her reputation. But that reputation...
...seems that the football fanatics have gone out of their way to supply their editor with a picturesque example to justify his prophetic ennui...
Seeing so much organized interference with religion and morals, a liberal minded Loyola, inspired by the proverb, "Set a thief to catch a thief", has gathered together a few chosen souls and gone hunting for fanatics with their own weapons. At all events, it ought to be good sport. The woods are full of game...
Perhaps he is patient and resigned. If so, he snatches his hat and rushes off to class. The happy moment is gone; but then, "Life itself is inexorable," he murmurs to himself. "A man must learn to live by the rufes...