Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since the Englishman in politics is admittedly empirical the immediate fate of the Labor Ministry doubtless rests upon the results of its present program. By initiating a strange foreign policy that has been characteristic recent governments Premier MacDonald has appeased at British longing which Mr. Golding declares has gone unsatisfied since the early nineteenth century. There remains the vexing problem of unemployment. If any thing is likely to wreck the immediate political fortunes of the present ministry it will be popular impatience with an unavoidable slowness in reshaping the economic forces now depressing English industry...
Ralph D. Paine, whose new novel "Four Bells" has already gone into its fourth printing, has just returned from the Indian Ocean and the African Coast, where he played golf on some remote courses. One of his yarns concerns a country club at Nairobi. Among the trophies on the walls is a stuffed head of a zebra. It seems that a foursome, starting out after an early breakfast, encountered a lion on the third green, where it had just made its kill. One of the players went back to the clubhouse for a rifle, and potted the lion. The head...
Helena's Boys. Mrs. Fiske, eternally and fragrantly youthful in her own spirit, has gone to the side of those playwrights who devote three acts to putting the younger generation over their knee. One of the widow Helena's sons is a young shrub who is in danger of being plucked from preparatory school for loudly summarizing a patriotic address as "Bunk!" The other writes for a magazine ai which free love is the burning creed. The widow's prescription for curing them of the New Freedom is as follows...
...Fall, and have all along remained at low levels. Such has been the fate of most leather, shipping, rubber and fertilizer shares, and it reflects something tougher than a bed of roses in these particular industries. Now stocks of other classes are beginning to "look sick." Automobile shares have gone down hill despite advertisements of the new four-wheel brakes. Steels have followed them. There is little song in the tobacco camp. On the other hand, rails have held rather well...
...Gallivan, Democrat of Massachusetts, denounced the Ku Klux influence back of the measure. Said he: "You seem to forget that only the other day your ancestors were alien, the sons of England, and France, Ireland and Scotland, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia and other lands. Wherever the immigrant has gone schools have sprung up, industries have flourished, trade has increased, wealth has multiplied, prosperity has bloomed and patriotism, peace, law, order, intelligence and happiness follow in his footsteps...