Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rainy night but the hall was filled. Some had heard him in 1924 when he came from England to play at Elizabeth Shurtliff Coolidge's Berkshire Festival; some had attended his six Bach recitals last year, given on six consecutive days, had heard people so far forget themselves as to cheer him-and Bach. Some went to hear him for the first time-a man who, according to Critic Lawrence Gilman, has made All-Bach recitals as popular in the British Isles as cricket matches, a musician with a keen enough sense of humor to tell on himself...
...other, splashing and blowing, were George Bernard Shaw, Mr. Wells would pause not, but play to first. It is not that he hates Animal Rescue League more, but he loves Shaw loss. "To the future," he says, "Shaw will have contributed nothing, and yet he may be harder to forget than Pavloff because his extraordinary industry in sitting to painters, photographers and sculptors will fill the galleries of the future with his portraits, medals, statues and busts...
...shall never forget the reddened snowsleds, filled with the hacked bodies, going to the cemetery to desposit their sad burden, in a common pit. They brought the wounded to the hospital? armless and legless men, mutilated babies and young women whose screams became faint as their wounds overcame them...
...good things that have been said about me, and I am not worthy of this gift-this timely gift, I might say, It is timely because my old Ingersoll gave out last summer and I had to borrow a watch from my son. I'll never forget this night...
...cannot be a halfway citizen under that flag. . . . We have a great deal to give when we confer citizenship upon an alien. It is like admitting a new stockholder, and he or she should be willing to do what the other stockholders have obligated themselves to do. We must forget our various views on pacifism when war comes...