Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright cover of appropriately aquatic design, the pages of the current "Briny Deep" number of the Lampoon offer a half-hour's entertainment to those seeking relaxation after toil during these last days of preparation for the approaching examinations. But Lampy's readers will not be allowed wholly to forget the Reading Period; for the Jester's editorial wit once again plays around this academic innovation, and under an elaborate figure suggests the Sophoclean maxim that it is unwise to call any man happy until he has safely passed his final goal. Those who have followed Lampy's course will...
...want him around," said Mrs. Reynolds. Insulted, Samy Pasha and his party returned to their hotel. Not until Governor Byrd apologized in person for Mrs. Reynolds' stupid race-blindness did Samy Pasha shrug his smooth shoulders and say, good-naturedly: "It's all right. We forget...
Meanwhile, unfortunate Queen Victoria Eugénie is not likely to forget that she is descended (through her father) from the Teuton family of Hesse-Darmstadt. In the strain of that House abides the dread and mysterious disease, haemophilia...
...Prince Carol waited at Croydon airdrome, near London, laden with 120,000 manifestos announcing the return of Carol to Rumania. Operatives of Scotland Yard were understood to have seized the manifestos. The text of these leaflets, apparently designed to fire the sluggard peasants to action, began: "Rumanians, do not forget King Ferdinand's son! [i. e., Carol]." The likelihood that a Carol coupe de leaflets could have succeeded seemed nil to persons who observed that at Alba Julia the peasants carried and displayed pictures of King Mihai and Dowager Queen Marie, but none of Carol...
...inaugurating such a course, M. I. T. seems to forget that in its sports it has the best possible instructor in team work. For years the worth of sports has long been argued to lie in the team spirit so valuable in later years which they give the youth for a heritage. Certainly an hour of rowing on the basin in rough weather will teach far more than the drone of a lecturer's voice over an equal stretch of time. It seems unfortunate that an adidtional burden should be added to a curriculum already as crowded as that...