Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James library has come to Widener. Many interesting volumes have gone on public sale, and are available to become the nucleus for growing collections. The pleasures of book-collecting have been immortalized by enthusiastic bibliophiles and essayists, who will testify that a "find" such as the current sale of Professor James's personal library is a rarity...
Well-how many times have you gone over your shelves on a rainy night, when you were tired and depressed, looking vainly for another story that would pick you out of the mire as quickly as a Conan Doyle, or a Mary Roberts Rinehart or an Anna Katherine Green? What better compliment is there, Mrs. Rohlfs, than that...
...that the vogue of any of the above-named gentry has entirely gone by. Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll...
...lengths to which three New York chorus girls have gone in seeking knowledge should cause the average student to hide his face in shame. Not content to trust one University or to consult one authority, these ambitious ladies sent a letter beginning "How can I help myself to a better and more cultured mind?" to the heads of Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, New York University, and Harvard. The response they got must have staggered them...
...true Vane", goes to Europe as a canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone bankrupt and has died from the shock, but Abigail, friendless and in financial straits, still has strength to refuse the wounded man's earnest proposal, though she loves him, and to make her way "into the black night--alone...