Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beethoven in Valhalla might smile a trifle bitterly to see his earthly origin made so much of. Immortals, he might sigh, are never allowed to forget that they once were born. That the French are willing to hear him again with honor would hardly yield much gratification to one who would have every right to consider it only their loss if they didn't. Nevertheless in scouting the notion that there is the slightest connection between musical scores and political treaties, Beethoven in Valhalla might have forgotten something about Beethoven in Vienna. Perhaps during the celebration the capital of France...
...pack animals." I was going to be gay with the remark that I had some camels, but remembered myself in time to forget it. Alone then but for ourselves we continued our slow climb. I had never been so high before except once at Revere Beach and that time old Aunt Kate took me to the top of the Woolworth Building. And yet here I was high above the waters of Champlain, working my way even higher. And then it snowed, snowed with the fury of ten unhappy children and a spanked grand-child...
...article concludes with the charge that college men "can't forget their college or deflate their snobbish exaggeration of the worth of their diploma. The showing of the graduates contrasts very poorly with that of non-graduates. I know; I've been watching them for years...
...needs but one thing to insure a winning team, he avers unconditioned candidates. In a vacation letter which Coach Farrell is sending to all track men he exhorts them to keep up in their studies. "It is my wish that your Christmas be merry and good, but do not forget in your celebrating that three weeks from the day you return you will face your mid-year examinations. The toughest competitor we have indoors is the mid-year examinations," declares Coach Farrell, "Do not aim to just get by. Try to be on the Dean's list. Study at least...
...commissioner of Mr. Cornwell send a photographer instead? Perhaps because no photograph could achieve that spirit, verve and easy romance that Mr. Cornwell puts into his illustrations. Unsuccessful artists sneer at him because he makes money, and has a studio in the Chelsea Arts Club, London. They forget that every man defines success in his own terms. Dean Cornwell, still young, once defined it as getting enough...