Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scores of modishly dressed women in the grandstands. To silence shocked old Bolsheviks, and give the Red Derby a veneer of serious purpose, great signboards were plastered with quotations from a recent speech by War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov: WITHOUT HORSES WE CAN'T WORK DON'T FORGET OUR HORSES WE NEED HORSES FOR DEFENSE AS WELL AS FOR WORK...
...been presented to the Royalty of Europe, and I could not remember their names and told them so. I cannot remember the terrible names of your officers, and so I shall just call you brother dogs." Remembering the Yellow Dogs' mission, he added: "I assure you I shall not forget my obligations to the underdog...
Next move was an organized Nazi drive to cheer Germans up and make them forget the blood bath. Every newspaper seller was made to wear a label on his hat reading Gute Laune ("Good Cheer"). Restaurant bands and radio orchestras were commanded to play nothing but lively music and to play it loud...
...England was a grim, stern place 250 years ago. Hard-faced captains and Governors tolerated no compromise among their followers and preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled. Occasionally some of these men, their wives or daughters were painted for a posterity which was quick to forget them. Last week in the Worcester Art Museum a collection of such portraits was put on show. Lent by many a learned institution or lately found in many a dusty New England attic, the pictures were a ghostly recollection of pomp and triviality in the late American...
...last week's race might be a replica of the one at Princeton three weeks ago when Cunningham won by 40 yd. with a new world's record for the mile. But spectators were destined to see a finish none of them is likely to forget...