Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President is away from Washington Secretary Hughes has permission to call Cabinet meetings. The chance of his collecting much of a gathering is small, however. Secretary Hughes will remain in Washington. But Secretaries Hoover, Work and Wallace are with the President; Secretary Mellon sailed for Europe and will be gone for about six weeks; Secretary Weeks is expected to take a vacation near Mt. Prospect, N. H.; Attorney General Daugherty anticipates periodical trips to his home in Ohio; Postmaster General New will go fishing in Michigan; Secretary Denby will spend part of the summer in Michigan, also; Secretary Davis...
...Baruch hastened to add that the proposal had not gone beyond the stage of discussion and that he had merely discussed its general feasibility with J. Ogden Armour and Mr. Marcy. Mr. Armour was at first opposed to the plan, but later changed his mind when Mr. Baruch pointed out that if the farmers should take over the Armour Grain Co. it would be a monument to Mr. Armour and his father...
...opportunity to reach the shore undetected. A woman came out in a rum runner's launch. She went to the skipper's cabin. An interval. The skipper and the woman lowered the schooner's dory and departed. The ship's papers, the money the Chinese had paid were gone...
...wholly in his hands. . . . On the other hand the result would probably have been the same, for the Senate were plainly waiting to deal him a mortal blow. . . . The United States, after having risen to heights of courage and idealism in its entry and prosecution of the War, has gone to the opposite extreme in the making of peace. For taking this course history will probably be even less sparing of us than our present-day critics. . . . The League is a God-sent haven for such states as Ireland...
Here is something American to the core-a thing most natively American in its every attribute, sprung like the border ballads from an aspect of American life now almost completely gone, preserved for the amazement of an age well nigh as different from the age that produced the rodeo as the Court of George V is from the court of Henry VIII...