Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several trenches in the vicinity of Verdun which could well stand being done over, and the cries are growing steadily louder that the kitchen police be prevented from continuing in their present deplorable ignorance of crepes suzette. Even America will come across with less reluctance if it can forget the horror of it. When the Yanks got off the boats at Brest and step into the chromium roadsters there to meet them they will not forget the farseeing designer who started the movement toward a more elegant war. From the Atlantic to Paris the cry will echo: "Dilkusha...
Less adaptable than other Greeks last week was a parrot in an Athenian cafe, trained to talk in happier times and not one to forget old tricks quickly. Over and over, to everybody's horror, he kept screaming with pride, "Hurray for Venizelos! Death to his enemies!" Once this patter had earned him crackers. Last week it got him a slit throat...
...Allied peace terms; Grey promised literally nothing. Sir Edward also completely captivated the U. S. Ambassador, Walter Hines Page, had him eating out of his hand from the beginning. In the first days of the War Page reported a notable interview with Grey: "I think I shall never forget yesterday. There sat this always solitary man-he and I, of course, in the room alone, each, I am sure, giving the other his full confidence.'' Says Millis: "It was a dangerous illusion for a diplomatist at a moment like that one." Page soft-pedalled Wilson's sharpest...
...like to urge Harvard men to get out and really become active in political and public affairs. Too many times the 'fate of the nation' is decided over a drink, and then the students forget all about it the next day. There has been too much indifference among young men. They're the ones we want, and they're the ones the country should have in public life...
Matching the Post in bad humor "Cissy" Patterson then sent her chauffeur to Eugene Meyer's home with a gorgeously decorated box. Inside was her card inscribed: "So as not to disappoint you.' Beneath a spray of freesia, sweet peas anc forget-me-nots, Publisher Meyer found pound of raw meat...