Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need this minority report occasion much surprise. A revue which originally was far from the best of the series, as the years pass by finds its jokes becoming stale, its songs worn out, its best dances and comedians gone on to newer things. The result is prettly likely to be some such flaccid exhibition as that which is now holding forth on the Majestic stage...
From the tombs of the great are gone the isolation of yesterday. The gentlemen of science have now usurped the avocation of Jerry Cruncher and his friends. Better it is for a man to die unknown, unpraised, than to risk perpetuity in a museum of cadavers. Modern research, ill content with probing the affairs of life, probes death. So this boy who once ruled Egypt must stand inspection before a maudlin world, while from far and near come novelty seekers aspiring to gaze for a moment at the death masque of the Pharaoh. Shavian and eternal, the child king suffers...
...equal on the squad, unless Prendergast was his superior. As a defensive back, he easily outshone the bemasked Tiger substitute, and one of his chief contributions to Princeton this year was his service as a receiver of the aerial threats around which Roper had built his offense. With Dignan gone, Slagle will have to be supplied with a new battery mate...
...Detroit, Mary Sarfano, 5, was playing with Peter Sarfano, 7. The children were alone in an empty little house, one of 50 just like it on a meagre street. Their mother was out getting the groceries; she hoped they would not quarrel while she was gone, but at that very moment Mary, piqued by an injustice, was twisting her small face in derision of her brother. "Monkey," she squealed, "you ole monkey!" Peter glowered, as he had seen them do in the movies. He knew how to avenge an insult. He went to his father's bureau, climbed...
...glory; their son dies at birth. The sins of the fathers. . . . After a few years she dies, too, and then there is neither passion nor glory for Lens. At last he stumbles upon glory, finding that he has a son of his own flesh. He who has gone dumbly feeling through life concludes: "God's wisdom is stronger than all the foolishness of the world...