Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cranks and faddists and narrow-minded bigots. . . . I have ordered my bankers (Barclay's Bank, Aldershot) to send you five dollars. And I beg of you to accept my sincere apologies for not attending to this matter before: but I have been extremely busy, and I shall not forget it again. DR. FITZGERALD...
...England the children are expensively educated, and expected to be expensively wed. In their new sophistication they forget their wild Irish days. Evelyn, graduated from Oxford, gets betrothed to Lady Middleton's marmoreal daughter Sarah, but when Easter and Basil see the trim life to which he is doomed they clear for home. Puppetstown has become a moldering tomb, Aunt Dicksie a crotchety recluse. She hates to have the children spoil her frigid peace, but warms to them and to life in the end. Puppetstown resounds again with the laughing speech learned from immemorial tradition and the local Blarney...
After the meeting many a Mayor crossed the Detroit River to Wet Windsor to forget official troubles...
...along beside them, inwardly echoing the glorious "oompah, pah, pah, oompah, pah, dum," of the horns and drums, and rejoiced, for it was good to hear. Freshmen hung out of the windows of Wigglesworth and watched languidly, glad for an excuse to leave their books, but watchful lest they forget to appear bored; Freshmen do study, just before examinations. But the glamour of the scene did not escape even their indifferent eyes. Perhaps they were a little more aware of the sweat rolling off the double chin of the fat butcher, and the limp of the clerk whose shoes were...
Publicized into overemphasis, U. S. college football has long been a subject of concern to wise-headed educators. Last year Columbia's President Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler urged that rich alumni endow football so that football could forget gate-receipts. Said he: "Perhaps what is needed is an academic League of Nations. . . . Until something of this sort is done Columbia must remain one of those colleges which pays the penalty." (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Few other university officials agreed with President Butler, but at the University of Pennsylvania President Thomas Sovereign Gates last autumn inaugurated a system...