Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first impression," testified Mr. Patten, "was that I was indignant and mad at the tremendous expense the Republican Committee had gone to. . . . I simply stormed and I am afraid I used bad language...
Eliza has made her precarious way across the ice, strewing her wake with the pillows that gave her the necessary embonpoint. The buzz-saw has ceased to hack at the disheveled hair of the fainted heroine, and the villain, with a furious gesture, has gone to meet his Maker. Gone are the thrillers and the tragedies and mysteries that held audiences tense for every moment of their diurnal span. Gone indeed, but the tradition seems to linger...
...curious and potent thing. The sea, the air, the jungle, the antipodes attract Irresistibly the craving for novelty so characteristic of humanity; and one needs no proof that this urge has been a tremendous factor in the progress in which each succeeding century takes pride. Success has perhaps gone a little to man's head; he takes mad chances and wins and in his cocksureness fails to take precaution in easier matters...
...Sandino's ammunition is practically gone. In so far as Nicaragua is concerned, he is finished and is simply trying to escape...
...Atlantic. Half in admiration, he reports Mr. Levine in love with flying. Halfway across the Atlantic Enthusiast Levine forced the Columbia into a 17,000-foot drop from which she was extracted with difficulty. Over Germany, Levine ordered the plane flown until the last drop of gas was gone, forcing an accident when a landing had to be made on rough ground. After each accident, said Mr. Levine in effect: "Wasn't that...