Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robinson: ". . . That is illustrative, my friends, of how a good man can go wrong, and how far wrong he can go, and what a fool he can make of himself after he has gone wrong...
...value of clear thinking. In the process he has shaped the development of careers which, without his inspiration and interest, might never have reached their fullness. To others uncertain of themselves, he has given of his courage. In return, he has asked only that those who have gone out into the world write him from time to time, and that the successful lend a hand to beginners and that when they return to Cambridge they permit themselves to be "exhibited" to the undergraduates as examples of what his "young men" can do if they "have a mind...
Boston, it has often been said, is in the last stages of decay--its ancient and vaunted "culture" gone to places where is will be more appreciated. Novels and magazine articles have been written on the subject, and trial cases have been fought in Boston's police court to establish the right of culture to be forced down decadent throats by authors and publishers of more learned cities...
Rolling out over the Florida Keys was mysteriously restful. At Key West, the sun had long gone down. The train went on a siding and, after more cinema, all except a few detectives and night-owlish newsgatherers, slept soundly...
...long forgotten Red Lions, Greyhounds, Cromwell's Heads, and Green Dragons of Boston. A map, too, marks their sites. But do not try to seek them out. For with the recent demolition of the Sun Tavern and the Three Mariners the last of Boston's old taverns have gone. Now their place is taken by Waldorf Lunches, Chain cigar shops, and five-and-ten cent stores. And the taverns of old may only be found inside the covers of a book...