Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as the Colonel's lieutenants shuttled back from Camp Columbia to the Capitol, the stand-up was over. Back into the chamber filed 111 of the lower house's 162 members, just enough for a quorum but not enough to let Boss Batista forget that they were aggrieved. What they then heard from President Laredo Bru would have burned the ears of any U. S. Congress...
...organized noises are the officials. The expression on the face of Mayor Mansfield, of Boston, when he raised a flag at 8:45 yesterday morning can only be compared to Al Smith's when he laid the cornerstone for the Empire State Building. And even our zealous officials forget to recall, for Governor Hurley was discovered waiting for a parade on the Cambridge Common, while the affair went on somewhere near Harvard Square...
...state of coma while afflicted with smallpox during an Osage epidemic. He was "buried," according to tribal custom, with some of his personal effects atop the ground. Then, also according to custom, his relatives divided his horses and other property, held a few wailing feasts and proceeded to forget...
...from home and wandered in some shady places before he murdered a French prostitute in her Marseille hotel. Skinner was a hard-bitten skipper who had wrecked one too many ships for his crooked employers. Legge was a burned-out writer who had taken to drink, to help him forget his responsibility for two women's deaths. Weisendonck, London Jew, was wanted for swindling. The Sicilian police were after Malatesta. O'Phelan had been a member of the Irish Republican Army, among other less respectable things...
...undeniable prerogatives of great men is the right to forget about everyday things, to miss out on details of ordinary existence that occupy the thoughts of petty men, men who lack the ability to bestride the world like a Colossus in their appointed tasks of human endeavor. A figure who has led the world in his interpretation of the Romantic poets, for instance, is the Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature. But John Livingston Lowes displays the most lovable trait of complete indifference to the Harvard catalogue, and he has from time to time announced in his lectures that...