Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passed, the pride of Islam was quivering beneath the heel of the foreigner. But Mustaffa Madani would not make the concessions that might have brought him riches. So he hung on the edge of starvation, and wondered what was to become of his beautiful daughter when he had gone. Yet he would not forgive her when she married Hassan, the Dervish, who was "not of the lineage." Only when a son came-a little Shareef like himself, did Mustaffa Madani, poor and old and humble, come to them through the streets of el-Korma. All the color, the smells...
...sneer is gone from Casey's lips, his teeth are clenched in hate...
...Significance. To read this latest of Donn Byrne's books is to walk a quiet way by the sea in Ireland and among greening hills and over the wide ends of the earth, with a kindly, brave man whose talk is chiefly mellow reminiscence. Because he thinks of gone days and people that live no longer, he thinks simply. His telling is not confused with detail. Because he is kindly and brave, he tells wistfully and with honesty of emphasis, without false pity for dead glories nor false praise for ancient virtues. Being Irish and a mellow man, he tells...
...Major General Mason M. Patrick, Chief of the U. S. Army Air Service, declared that: "We have really gone so far as to now believe that transportation of an expeditionary force across the seas is an impossibility. If the Germans had known in the World War what we know now, few of our million men would have reached France...
...caricature of the vintage of 1776 or thereabouts, recently discovered on the walls of Massachusetts Hall, has caused considerable discussion among the intellectuals of the yard. The first word is easy; but who--or what was Ben? Was it a clock which sounded the Chapel bell in days gone by, or was it the original penpetrator of the daily seven o'clock fantasia in Harvard Hall? Possibly Ben was the parent of all modern book agents whose bickering approach was heralded long enough to allow the artist to draw the picture and the message on his locked door...