Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said: "He took the part of mediator between us. . . . Do not forget that Germany was the country with which Belgium was on very bad terms (sic) during and because of the War. M. Vandervelde's attitude is indicative of the new Europe based on cooperation and conciliation...
...could be better made of what must be considered one of his most lasting qualities, one of the things which entitled him so eminently to "the lasting satisfactions of life." This aspect of his contribution to their education is one which Harvard students will find it most hard to forget. One speaks still in Cambridge with bated breath of the Trinity, James, Santayanna, and Royce. The name of Agassiz, or that of Norton, or Channing, or Haskins, are but a few of those which are words to conjure with even now. What Dr. Eliot did in securing these...
Last week Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg brought to a climax a hereditary role of U. S. Secretaries of State, the role of pacificator of Chile and Peru. With a tactful finality he tells Chile and Peru to forget their 40-year squabble and sell the provinces of Tacna and Arica to Bolivia, it being understood that he will use "his good offices" to promote such an agreement...
...thunder stand out like welcome terra firma to a man in an open boat. For in the shifting sea of truth and actuality where floats the usual novel of today, the convincing tale of the impossible is a delectable and long sought isle where the casual reader may forget for a time that life is after all a rather nasty combination of prohibitions and inhibitions...
...shaped, green New England shutters on p. 408. The collection of cobblestones, sealskin sacques, decalcomanias, bustles, buggies, political platforms and gimcrack customs, all echoing to the tinkle of bicycle bells and chandeliers, is truly remarkable. In fact, it is so remarkable that the exhibitors' enthusiasm made them somewhat forget their narrative obligations. The ingenuous characters are gently regarded as being almost as odd today as were (allegedly) grapefruit and golf to oldtime Chicago...