Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public schools and then support at the same time parochial schools indicates how Catholic parents feel; they make sacrifices to maintain both. The public schools for those who want them; the parochial schools ditto. Plumber Sanders brazenly declares, "I am a member of the Catholic Church and in years gone by !" He's probably the kind of member that comes for his own funeral when he can't kick any longer. I have one parishioner (?) who has not darkened the door of our church for 40 years. A zealous Mason tried to capture him for the order...
Last week he fractured presidential tradition by having a telephone placed at his elbow. All other Presidents had gone to an adjoining room to telephone, which they rarely did. Now President Hoover calls up his Cabinet members who respond with a brisk "Yes, Mr. President." By this method they are saved time-wasting journeys to the White House...
...goodly number of months have gone by since the announcement of Mr. Harkness' gift. Nothing new has developed; the success of the plan is no more determined than before, as only trial can settle that point. And yet each week our honored and respected friends across the Common grow more and more irate and troubled...
...social educators is Miss Marka (Margaret Louise) Truesdale of Manhattan. She has tired of eating meals grown cold by waiting for a tardy guest. And she sympathizes with young businessmen who go to parties and have to be at their offices the morning after. Said she: "Things have gone so far that it's not pleasant. We're not enjoying it. The young men are not enjoying it, and certainly the hostesses aren't enjoying it. Being late came into fashion but it's getting so that everybody comes later and later. As things...
Last week perhaps a million persons lined the Thames from Putney to Mortlake. It was the centenary of the famous struggle between the light blue and the dark. Forty times had impudent Oxford won. Thirty-nine times victory had gone to Cambridge. Once, in 1877, the judges could name no winner, for the crews finished together to the stroke−a dead heat...