Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things done, that "hardboiled" artillery philosopher, will leave his duties at Governors Island* to become the peacetime chief of the army. In the language of the streets, he should keep the army on its toes. Said he, many years ago: "Persons who talk about peace and abolishing the army forget that everything the United States has, it got by force. No matter how righteous are the decisions it makes, it could not be anything but another China if it had not force to back up those decisions...
...concert of Europe, the echoes of which are seldom soft and never silent, assembles again in one of its oddest arrangements. It always has multiple leadership at its meetings and a more or less definite discord among the leaders. People do not forget that the angry voices a decade ago shaped themselves into a great conflict. Since then the bickerings have been viewed with more or less sensitive alarm...
Public opinion does not exude spontaneously from the cogitations of the multitude...In large measure it is a manufactured product, prepared for the purpose of selling it to the people and marketed to them in the accustomed way. We are prone to forget that you can sell an idea to the people in the same way that you sell them any other commodity, from a Liberty Bond to a break and our politicians are the brokers who put through the sale. Our political brokers even deal in futures, and have marketed to the country a large block of that somewhat...
Those who in their cursory glance at the late days of the Nineteenth Century see only the faded features of fin de siecle gentlemen with yellow roses in conspicuous button holes, men who can only live in history as characters in a travesty, called "The Mauve Decade", forget that more vigorous people were living and working at that time. Dartmouth College this week mourns the death of such a person, vigorous and vital...
...thin red line," " 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy," "Sun comes up like Thunder," "Rag and a bone and a hank o' hair," "Oh East is East, etc.," "The tumult and the shouting dies," "Lest we forget," "The flanneled fools at the wicket, or the muddied oafs at the goals," "Who dies if England Live?" "Sisters under their skins," "The 'eathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone," "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din," and many another...