Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...causes that have made it necessary to take this action are to be found in the economic conditions that have prevailed since the war. The cost of education has gone up; and the gifts to Harvard do not produce enough additional income to meet the increased cost...
...Guaranty Co., the Chemical National Bank of Manhattan and of Sidlo, Simons, Day & Co. of Denver. The men, like most men in finance, depend for livelihood upon creating new security issues for sale to investors. Mr. Howard's company, they knew, could carry new financing. It had never gone to the general public for funds and it was a great profit-earner. On his part, he could use some millions to pay for papers which he had recently acquired and for others which he proposes to buy. The group called their parleys a deal, and last weeK...
...think," she said once, "that they will miss me when I am gone." In a quarter-century of fearless truth-telling she said nothing truer. L. B. R. Briggs...
...Negroes strut in musical shows, was crystallized when the Theatre Guild made its first furore of the season with Porgy, played by an uncanny troupe of colored folk. There were murmurs in the shrewd recesses of the Guild at the time that a good deal of patient teaching had gone into that performance, more perhaps than was normally expended on the most colorless cast. But these murmurs were not news. Knowingly expectant people let themselves into the tiny Princess Theatre for the opening of a play written and performed by Frank Wilson, onetime Harlem* mailman, now title actor in Porgy...
...pole swinging hoops on his heels, walks a huge ball up a perilous incline and down the other side, whirls with his feet a heavy pole weighted with a man at either end, tumbles neatly, and catches lighted matches in his mouth. He might be compared to Douglas Fairbanks gone incurably insane. So unaccountable are his activities that some people trying to follow him, don't think that he is funny. They had best be absent from Rain or Shine. With meagre notable exceptions it is a wretched show. But for those who like Joe Cook it is heavenly ceremony...