Word: forgetfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same night last week that unreconstructed (and unPurged) Senator Cotton Ed Smith, in a flaming red shirt, cried "Lest we forget!" to the midnight sky of South Carolina (see p. 26), a cadaverous man with a crusading light in his eye ad dressed a banquet hall full of women Democrats in Boston's Statler Hotel. He was Harry Hopkins explaining, on the night of the Roosevelt Purge's worst de feat so far, the high motives of that his toric political operation, and its moral justification...
...shirts and. like a heavy-set Garibaldi, led the celebrants to the State House grounds. There, beside General Hampton's equestrian statue, he closed his campaign with a ringing speech to the midnight sky, ending: " 'Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet. " 'Lest we forget-lest we forget...
After the Queen Mary briefly stuck crosswise in the river on which she was built, Britain's funnypaper, Punch, pictured a barge in similar predicament whose crestfallen helmsman called to the captain, "Don't forget, Cap'n, the same thing happened to the Queen Mary." With Cunard White Star officials still asserting that the Queen Mary was not deliberately racing on her recent record crossing (TIME, Aug. 22), Punch last week showed two tugboats running furiously neck & neck. "Racin'? Certainly not," says one of the tugboat captains, hoisting his nose high...
Governor Johnston is South Carolina newer-style-a husky Sergeant of Engineers who went through college after the War, drove to the top in politics with energy that sometimes gets him in trouble. Candidate Brown, quiet, efficient, lawyerlike, would not let voters forget the time "Machine Gun" Johnston called out the militia to drive able Chief Highway Commissioner Ben Sawyer out of office, only to have the State Supreme Court uphold Mr. Sawyer. Both Candidates Johnston and Brown proudly recall that they worked in cotton mills as boys - a good political start in a State where textile workers vote...
Medieval doctors used bee stings for arthritis, reasoning that the pain would make patients forget their aching joints. Modern doctors put the bee on patients more scientifically, first anesthetizing an arthritic joint with ethyl chloride, then applying artificial stings. Seventy-three out of 100 cases in New York Hospital were improved, said Dr. Jacques Kroner and associates in Current Medical Digest last month. Most of the cases showing no improvement were of long standing...