Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girls seems to find a good deal of favor when one asks the why and wherefore. After all, Americans are not too numerous in Japan and the prospect of spending a pleasant few hours with a bunch of Harvard ball-players must have made many a comely Japanese maiden forget her afternoon prayers...
...chromatic, well-knit Triptyque of Alexandre Tansman; the Canticum Fratis Soils of Charles Martin Loeffler. Carl Engel, one-time music librarian in Washington, asked Composer Frank Bridge if he considered any of the new works worth $500. Composer Bridge, a dry Briton, answered, "Well, Carl, don't forget the American dollar has been devalued...
...workingman and against Anaconda Copper by specializing in compensation cases. In 1910 he supported the late Thomas J. Walsh in his first U. S. Senatorial campaign. Walsh was defeated, but Wheeler was sent to the State Legislature. When Senator Walsh won his seat in 1912 he did not forget his young ally. In 1913 President Wilson appointed Wheeler U. S. District Attorney for Montana. His corporate enemies spent five futile years trying to get him out of office. He handed in his resignation in 1918, only to run unsuccessfully for Governor on the Democratic ticket two years later...
...last fortnight's election there were heralded by Postmaster Farley as "proof ample that the New Deal meets with the majority of the people." In winning the first re-election of a Democratic Governor since the Civil War, Louis J. Brann had not let Maine's electorate forget that in the past two years $108,000,000 of Federal money had been pumped into the State, which was five times the Government largess given Republican New Hampshire. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "Maine Votes For Santa Claus...
...five-year imprisonment in France during the War, this book is a subtly horrible monument to man's inhumanity to man. Superficially less gruesome than many a record of front-line fighting, its nightmarish quality develops imperceptibly, will leave most readers shaking their heads in an unsuccessful attempt to forget...