Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...woman who was Vice Chairman of the Democratic Convention, Miss May Kennedy, was not one of Mrs. Davis's intimates; she was a little worker who had gone into the Bronx and brought out votes for Tammany. During the same period, Mrs. Davis was on a committee which showed up the iniquities of the Republican tariff by an "exhibit." In the exhibit, mannequins ambled about dressed in imported gowns (or their equivalent) with jewels, silk stockings, slippers−a complete costume and everything price-marked. By contrast, another part of the exhibit showed what the same articles would cost...
...first thought that the Premier had been fatally wounded, but subsequent investigation showed that the bullet had merely gone through the fleshy part of his right forearm and skinned the chest muscles of his right side...
...Lamme is dead. How many of our 112,000,000 know his name? He was one of the four greatest electricians in the country. Edison, Tesla, and Steinmetz were the other three. Lamme and Steinmetz are gone...
...pair of greedy boys from the French family next door got the Wimbledon bowl away from John's American cousins just before everyone went home. This might not have happened, some thought, if little "Vinnie" Richards, one of the Americans, had gone to bed earlier the week of the party, had not guzzled so much of the punch...
...upon what I owed to the Democratic Party, said I: 'It took me up when I was ten years younger than any other man had been when he was nominated by a great party, and it found me in a Western state, farther west than it had ever gone before, and it gave me a million more votes than it had given any Democrat before [applause] and it nominated me twice afterward, and I never had to use any money and I had no organization.' [Applause.] Then I said: 'Partisans spare that party, touch...