Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every day some one of my friends announces that he has gone on the wagon. There will always be a certain percentage of drinkers, but their kidneys will carry them...
...With this has gone a governmental policy of refusal to make necessary expenditures for purposes which would have effected a real economy. The Postmaster-General states that there was a large annual waste in the handling of mail, resulting from lack of modern facilities and equipment. Scarcely a large city in the country had adequate quarters for the transaction of Federal business. The government pays rent in the city of Washington alone of more than one million dollars annually. It is estimated that the government is paying rentals of twenty million dollars in the nation. True economy would be effected...
From the Scottish castle of Achnacarry, whither he had gone as the guest of its famed tenant, Director-General Sir Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch Shell Oil (TIME, Aug. 20), Walter Clark Teagle, president of Standard Oil of New Jersey, last week sent a telegram. It was addressed to the London office of the Associated Press. In effect it read: "Tut-tut!" Actually it read...
...time we demanded for our workers a 'full dinner pail.' We have now gone far beyond that conception. Today we demand larger comfort and greater participation in life and leisure...
From Ziegfeld's Follies chorines have gone to grand opera (Mary Lewis), a title (Jessica Brown, Countess of Northesk), "the dogs" (libel law prohibits names), the drama (Ina Claire). Few return. An exception is La Claire, whom many regard as the most pleasing U. S. actress. She contracted last week to star for Ziegfeld's fall musical piece, Nell Gwynne...