Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, committing him as to appearances if not morally and politically, there was Senator LaFollette's able, notable brother, Lecturer Philip LaFollette of the University of Wisconsin's law faculty. Brother Phil had gone up and down the State speaking for Brother Bob and he, too, had said some very
Rescue work was continued as night fell. A few moments after midnight tolled there was heard an ominous crash. In another quarter of the city another building had collapsed. It too had been nearing completion, and since the workmen had all gone home to slumber no one was killed. Next morning experts again croaked, "faulty construction." Nervous, superstitious citizens waited for a third building to fall...
That, at least, is where he put it last week when he slept at a hotel in Lincoln, Neb. In the morning, the pocketbook was still there but Senator Borah's money, some $400, was gone. Gone too was some $300 which Senator Borah's secretary Sam Jones, had left in the pockets of his clothes. A just man, Senator Borah said: "I want it understood that we attach no responsibility for the loss to the State of Nebraska nor to the welcoming committee...
Maine has gone. But not as Maine goes go all Mainiacs. In the fishing village of Friendship, Me. (near Rockland), for example, there is considerable animus towards both the Presidential candidates. "That Al Smith" would soon have the Pope of Rome prancing around in the White House, say the Friendship folk. As for Mr. Hoover, he is the man who took all our bread and sugar away during the War and "et" it himself. "Just look how fat he is," say the Friendship housewives. Mrs. Abbie Simmons Fernald won't have even a Hoover vacuum cleaner in her house...
Critic Philip Hale of the Boston Herald found the first concert satisfying, wrote: "If Debussy could have heard his 'Festivals' he would have gone on the platform and, in the face of the public, embraced Mr. Koussevitzky...