Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Rico was feted by the gang, Joe failed to appear. Joe was the svelte "inside man" of the roadhouse job. Now he had acquired a woman, money, a professional dancing job. He wanted to forget Rico, go straight. Rico believed that to go straight was to go soft, maybe to squawk. He invited Joe to join a second holdup. By refusing, Joe knew he would sign his own death-sentence. By accepting, he strengthened a valuable connection...
...ever had his hat ordered from his head by M. Danguy in the fencing room will ever forget it. And those who have absently whistled a tune in the same sanctum will remember that such an exhibition of contentment is a breach of fencing etiquette. It was in the observance of such by-laws of his game that M. Danguy made himself known as much as in his ability to give to others something of his own skill. He will be missed by those who knew him, and their good wishes follow him to his retirement...
...superior advantages of training given him in college, and he is to turn these to superior account in the development of "trained, organized, fastidious, discriminating leadership," yet he is to do this without arrogance, without self-conceit, in short, without snobbery. He is to court nobility, but never to forget, as snobs always used to forget, that noblesse oblige...
...demand for its product by business men, by the contributions of its Faculty to an important area of human knowledge and endeavor, by the support which it has attracted from industry and from business men, or by its promise of further accomplishment in all these fields. It may fairly forget the early questioning as to its status in the University and devote its attention in the future to perfecting its methods and material, to the strengthening of its Faculty and to the fulfilment of its professional, ethical and scientific opportunities...
...American Rhodes Scholars, a George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University. Said Mr. Eastman: "I am desirous of doing something that will assist Englishmen and Colonials and particularly the group destined to play an important part in government, science, scholarship, journalism and industry to understand America. ... I do not forget that an Oxford experience will be immensely stimulating to the American appointee. . . ." The Rhodes professors will visit from one to five years, will be attached to Balliol College, which is scholastically prominent and famed as the intellectual crib of the late Herbert Henry Asquith and many another statesman who rose...