Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...frigidly austere environment, is apotheosized in the films into a pretty good boy, much put upon for mocking local narrowness. The shiftless youth who was saved by his mother's hand, reaching out from the grave through a devoted girl, becomes merely a sulky Achilles, not far enough gone to the dogs to require a lifeline...
More than one ministry in the "right little tight little island" of Great Britain has labored heroically with the problem of unemployment, has been cursed and vilified for laboring in vain, and has gone down under the insensate heel of the mob. Now it appears from dispatches, unless these be propaganda of the present ministry, that the fight has been against an irresistible force of nature. Too late to make redress the English public will discover that it has been unjust, that something which is almost impossible of remedy is the cause of unemployment--bigger and better health. Instead...
...British had gone ahead before the Turks could arrive on the scene, the campaign would not have ended in miserable failure for the British. That one blunder changed the course of the whole affair...
...Gallishaw, having gone through the Gallipoli campaign as a member of the Newfoundland Regiment, described the hardships of the expedition from first hand experience. "Ypres, considered the worst sector on the Western front, I later learned was a Paradise compared to Gallipoli. In the latter place we were handicapped by the adobe soil, in which only shallow ditches could be dug for shelter. These and our pith helmets were hardly protection against snipers and shrapnel...
Immense squads of workmen rapidly patched up the fractured aqueduct, but for several days the only water that Rome received was from the heavens. Even Benito was reported to have "gone unwashed for days...