Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prosperity it is easy to forget. More than a hundred years ago Charles Lamb wrote a humorous essay under the rather ambiguous title of "Poor Relations," in which he described the poor relation as casting a shadow on the threshold, in the high noon of prosperity.--In prosperity men do their best to forget such shadows. But in poverty and in wartime it is different. There is suffering, and, in thinking of a loss such as Sir Harry Lauder's, there comes to most men the question whether the subject is not worth more thought, and more interest, and more...
...lacks, as it seems to me that it does, a little of the power of "Good Friday," it can in all probability be due only to the stronger appeal which that story makes to the Christian emotions. For the account he gives us is convincing; for the moment we forget that her name has come to be synonymous with "harlot," and feel for Jezebel somewhat the same tender sympathy that we give to Marie Antoinette...
...Precedents. "Let us not forget that the principle of adjusted compensation is a principle that our Government has already firmly established. . . . Congress passed a bill by which the Government which ceased with the termination of the War was adjusted. We adopted the principle of adjusted compensation for the railroads of the land. . . . The Government of the United States during the War and for some months thereafter actually paid a bonus to its civilian employees. We paid $20 a month during the War as a bonus, and we have paid to our employees in this bonus more than double...
Pleasure Mad. When the producers forget that their films are manufactured for the projection room oi a theatre and not for a pulpit there is apt to be dullness. The lesson for this particular evening is the parable of the poor family who suddenly found themselves wealthy. Scrutinizing of the title enables one to guess the outcome...
...could see she did not resent my attentions. ... I could never understand how she got the reputation of being ill-natured or cold-hearted (there were some, in the old days, who used to say so), for surely in my experience she was never that. . . . And then?can I forget the day when I learned that she, too, in her secret way, had been thinking tenderly of Me? She sent me word (the darling) that she had come to the conclusion that our friendship might be put upon quite a different footing. . . . I came to see her. . . . And then...