Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work is distinctly pessimistic about the progress of peace since he went out of office, and is little more than an amplification of the newspaper articles which he has been contributing to the Hearst press. He is convinced that peace "has gone back perceptibly and unmistakably." "The present year." says he, " has been one of growing gloom and menace; the international temper is distinctly worse all around...
...problem of adviser and advisee more promptly and efficiently than ever before. If amid the welter of first college appointments and new surroundings, a large proportion of Freshmen have already seen advisers, it is due to the work of the Committee, which has changed the old order of things; gone are the days when the lordly Senior Adviser emerged from his den to visit his meek advisees as the snow began...
...their four children, the engineer, Robledo?all now extremely rich?returned to Paris on a visit. The visit brought up memories of Elena. Robledo wondered what could have become of her?and found her by accident, on the streets of Montmartre, a mere rag of a woman, with everything gone but a taste for good whiskey. So that was the end of Elena, and a very suitable...
...list of singers at La Scala held the elite of the world's vocalists. To sing at the celebrated opera house of Milan was a crowning honor; to be selected for a very important premier, an election to Parnassus. But since the War vocal things have gone badly all over Europe, and Italy (while comparatively in very good shape) has not avoided harm. The best Italian singers are in America. Recent operatic performances at La Scala have been most distinguished, but not out of any plenitude of superlative voices. The glory has rested with the orchestral and ensemble elements...
...turn? Possibly to Argentina, which is receiving inordinate publicity of late owing to the successful business visit of Senor Luis Angel Firpo. Japan and China have been veterans since The Mikado. The Negro rage and the grass-skirt scare are already moribund. Spain and the clatter of castanets is gone. Covered with dust are the crinoline, the harem skirt, Scotch kilts. The stage of the American revue is rapidly approaching the end of the world. Without other worlds to conquer, Russia, Egypt and the influence of dusky Florence Mills must inevitably conquer the American stage...