Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford, on the money willed for this purpose by famed Diamond-miner Cecil Rhodes, because he had shown himself excellent in all or some of three qualities: a) character, b) scholarship, c) athletic prowess. Here the necessary likenesses ended. But, unless this 32 is unlike any that has gone before it, most of its members will feel and cause a vague dissatisfaction while they are at Oxford and when they leave Oxford they will not have settled the interminable discussion as to whether Rhodes scholars enjoy or derive profit from their three years there...
Menelaos shakes hands with his subjects and, by stentorian snoring and an overemphasized case of hay-fever, blows his wife away. Once gone, she realizes that a statue is not an idol unless it has clay feet; and that men are always either snoring or boring. This cultural advance is accomplished with a great pounding of subtitles, and a cast whose gait is not always, but usually, smooth and rapid. Among its members are Lewis Stone as Menelaos and Ricardo Cortez as a sultry but persuasive Paris. Now We're in the Air. Wallace Berry and Raymond Hatton have...
...past ten years. "I am unwilling to accept dismissal at the hands of the vestry," he said. "I believe that the majority of the people are with me, and I have been given a unanimous vote of confidence by the clergy of Long Island. I could have gone away with several thousand dollars and probably would have been much happier elsewhere, but I am not to be browbeaten or persuaded by a gift of money. An Episcopal minister has the right to hold his post for life or during good behavior. Much as I regret all this publicity...
...City Gone Wild becomes, suddenly and unfortunately, in the midst of a great crackle of bullets and bad-words, a cinema gone mild. It ends in a crescendo of sentimentality when Thomas Meighan, the lawyer for many a badman of the underworld, reforms and, as crusader, discovers that his sweetheart's father is the biggest gun among the gunmen. Eventually, the guilty are punished and the innocent spared...
...affectionate Friend Charles Dickens. New Years Day 1844." The Library possesses in the Sumner collection a letter, which is now also on exhibit, written to Charles Summer in March, 1842, in which Dickens says, "I miss Felton sadly. Half the pleasure of my world, as Charles Lamb says, has gone with him. I would give, I hardly know what I would not give, to have him at No 1 Devonshire Terrace, York gate, Regents Park, London; for I have a sincere affection...