Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year is a time alike of retrospection and of prospection. People look back and see that their cash accounts have been ridiculously handled; that their time gas been wanted here and there, and that such treasured ideals as Efficiency and Purpose have gone to the damnation bow-wows. And then they look ahead and make resolutions. Those holes in the trouser pockets shall be sewed up, and the old gentleman with the hour-glass and the sickle shall march more properly in time to the music. This above all; everybody will henceforward be true to his purpose. Everybody...
...Dreyfuss," gulped Mile. Laurent, "who are you anyway?" but Dreyfuss offered an excuse, kissed her hand, was gone...
...benefited by a purge of triflers, and in managership competitions of the socially ambitions. The belief has gained strength that the by-products of study, mysterious as they are in origin, are worth more than the uncertain experience of undergraduate activity. The sacred practise of deliberately "making contacts" has gone under the hammer. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that at Harvard the Big Man in His Class has died, and that there have been no heirs...
...child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls in love. He tells her how, in Mexico, he killed a native by hitting him on the head with a bottle full of pebbles. When he has gone away, the woman does this to her husband and to explain his death she tells the story of "two big, dark-looking men." In court she confesses her crime and in prison is killed for having committed...
...Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water-hole, following a 20-mile drag over the hot sands, they find the water-hole has gone...