Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affected by the vacation migration. The barbershop trade is another. The Yalies may tell you that Harvard men never take haircuts, but they're wrong. It takes considerable skill to give that moss-grown look to pate after pate, and Cambridge barbers have it. They'll have to forget it until fall, however...
Nonetheless, South Koreans went to the polls this week. U.S. occupation authorities encouraged a big turnout by dropping don't-forget-to-vote leaflets from planes. Most were expected to cast their votes for the National Association for the Rapid Realization of Korean Independence of Dr. Syngman Rhee. His party stood for a unified Korea-but not for unification a la Pyongyang...
Winston Churchill's advice to Conservatives leaving for the U.S.: "When you get there you have to forget this Socialist Government of Great Britain. It is the government of Great Britain, and you do not criticize it. But when you get back, you make up for lost time." Author-Orator Churchill will also have something to say in the twelfth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, due in November-60 entries on his debut (Franklin Roosevelt's total will rise from...
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's advice to 500 members and guests of Chicago's Art Directors Club, in annual meeting: "The first thing you should do is forget that you're artists . . . you're only the hands of the machine and you know there's nothing in America that can stand up against the machine. If you were 'Art Directors' . . . you would put the machine in its place . . . You all use your work for comfort. There's no beauty or truth in it ... What is there you really reverence? ... Is there anything...
...years, thousands of Baylor students have taken his poetry course on Robert Browning, and most would never forget it. Peering down at his class from his lecture platform, Doc Armstrong was a lordly figure, with a voice that shook the windows. Sloppy recitations enraged him. "Mush!" he would cry at a mumbling student; sometimes coeds fled the room in tears. Students feared him, but were fascinated; they came in flocks...