Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more unfavorable comment than it warrants. It is his place to represent the American people. But the fact that he misinterprets his government's attitude, and states his opinion publicly does not necessitate the criticism of two countries. It is the government's duty to correct him and to forget about it. But, according to the Boston Herald, the American administration rebukes him for fear of losing ground in the impending presidential race, while France concludes "that we now have unofficial ambassadors as well as unofficial observers...
...country will not forget that he sacrificed his life in her service." By this significant tribute Premier Baldwin has at once honored the name of Bonar Law and indicted the organization of modern government. That a nation will cherish in special reverence the public servant who has given "the last full measure of devotion" can hardly be held a justification of the over-strain and overwork to which he has been subjected. Even those who were most hitter against the theories of President Wilson condemned a system which produced the tragic figure of an executive broken by the terrific strain...
Basil Jarvis, English trainer: "Every one has been wonderfully kind to us and we shall never forget...
...sincerely wish that the gallant officer had not used that phrase. I never heard that prayer between 1914 and 1918. But I shall never forget the agonized prayer of the French Ambassador to his friends in England to come to the help of France. We went within 24 or 48 hours. Why, 900,000 dead from the British Empire are scattered widely through military graveyards all over France and Flanders in evidence of England's friendship for France, and 1,300,000 of our best working men are now eating the bread of charity in England because we went...
...method is to dissolve the mystery of grand opera, to destroy the traditions that it is only for the highly cultured: to exploit the human pull which lived in the hearts of great composers and which now lives in their compositions. Jazz we hear and forget. Its lilt wears for the moment and then fades. But even the most untutored in music can retain the memories which a great composer's idea inculcates into a musical drama...