Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing can be done. The National preserves are short a few animals. A few more have gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds to be hunted over and over again by the Red Men of the dim past...
Pizarro still lies in Lima. At least they say it is he?the shriveled corpse in a glass coffin, scaled these four centuries, with a foot hacked off, a hand gone, a slash in its throat. For a few pesos, the monks of the cathedral will take you into the dusky chapel and gloat, while you stare, at the mummy-like remains in black vestments.* They will tell you, old hatred burning beneath their derision, that this shrunken carcass was once the Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy...
...flames which rose 60 ft. into the air. A fire engine was on the spot in six minutes, but firemen and mechanics with axes could do nothing but watch the flames because of the intense heat. The seven passengers and the pilot must have died instantaneously. Their clothes were gone and their bodies black when disinterred from the wreckage...
...including the playwright. He put up a game fight, however, until the situation got the better of him at the end of the last act; he shuddered, uttered a desperate anticlimax, and succumbed. The audience paid no attention to his fiasco, but was satisfied with the thrills that has gone before; well-schooled by the happy ending-at-all-costs movies, it was already groping for its bat under the seat...
...There was once a Scotch parson who said in a sermon. 'And now, my brethren, we come to a varry deeficult passage ; and having looked it bowldly in the face, we will pass on.' His talents were wasted in the Church. He should have gone in for operatic management...