Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to determine where negligence and foolishness stop, and where treason begins: In Greece the men executed may or may not have been guilty of real treason; their death was brought about by mad, mistaken patriotism on the part of a people gone hysterical. What of Illinois? There too, it can be said with good reason that the charges against the millionaire radical and his associates were due in part to national war hysteria...
...condition, and the cure lies not so much in shutting up as in building up. If unattractive home-life can be made more attractive, the temptation for petty thefts will stop. The Phillips Brooks House has already done much to help,--giving Thanksgiving dinners to families which would have gone without,--and the Cambridge Welfare Society has done its share...
Washington will see Fordney, McCumber, Calder, Sutherland, Poindexter--names familiar to the majority of newspaper readers--for the last few months. Frelinghuysen "playmate of the President", France, Dupont, Mondell--will be gone. The Republicans stand a rebuked party, Lodge still there but badly shaken, Beveridge perhaps by the connotation of his name. Though speculation is already rife as to Congress in the next two years--a very small Republican majority; the balance of power in the hands of radicals Republican in name only; a "legislative moratorium"--the rebuked Sixty-seventh, and the incumbent Republicans, have still chance of accomplishing something...
...Time and time again have I seen him draw from his own allotment of personal tickets prior to a game and give them to a member of the Board of Overseers who hasn't had any, but yet who has done some great work for Harvard. His tickets have gone mostly to Harvard backers and not to personal friends...
...every Saturday for six weeks undergraduates have gone to the Stadium. They have sat in the cheering section and shouted when told to by the cheer leaders. Or, perched on the East side, they have exhorted each member of the team by his, first name, establishing in this way their superiority to their hostile surroundings. Or, whenever a Crimson-clad player hit the line, they have jumped up in their seats and shrieked, "Atta boy, George...