Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past three years the crew squad has been composed of some of the best material in the east, and yet there have been no victories worth the name. Objection has, however, been quashed by the well meaning sentiment "Give them a chance." But opportunities have come and gone, and if affairs continue to take the same course there will this year be a reduplication of a situation that has become intolerable to everyone interested, and most of all to the crew men themselves...
...imported from the European peasantry to aid an American business boom cannot go back to Europe when the boom is over. It has to stay, be assimilated and Americanized. This was possible as long as there was free land to take up the slack. But that outlet is now gone, and the result for the last 20 years has been the abnormal crowding of cities with unassimilated and partially employed foreigners, with all the attendant political and social evils...
...peroration Mr. Baldwin said: " I have gone to the utmost limit of my power to relieve the taxpayer without impairing the credit of the nation; for the future credit of the nation and relief to the taxpayer are in the long run inextricably interwoven. I believe that although we are still in a series of transition years we have already passed the peak load of taxation, and we may hope soon to have left behind us the calamitous years of trade depression. But our hopes may be frustrated by untoward events on the Continent or untoward events at home. Industrial...
...impromptu affair, varying from night to night with the spirit of the entertainers. But it had real Negro jazz music, real dancing and a quality of speed and verve which was unique and refreshing. Strut Miss Lizzie and Liza, which followed, were progressively poorer. The naivete was gone, the speed became a deliberate mechanical effect instead of a natural exuberance, and the delightful " high yella " and " brown skin " flavor, degenerated into a cheap imitation of white musical comedy plus extravagant caricature of the native jazz tradition. How Come, in the opinion of most metropolitan reviewers, is the poorest...
Surely here is censorship gone...