Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next there is a group of papers which devote some space to what we call these larger interests, but the articles are accounts rather than thoughtful opinions. Life in these colleges seems to be contentedly intra-mural, with a superficial reporting of what goes on outside. They seem to forget, except for short intervals, that they are in life themselves not just looking at it disinterestedly. But they do wake up sometimes, and each time with increasing vigor and justness...
Paris became annoyed; the book was bad, it was published three years ago, every one had been glad to forget...
This, the speaker said, was the spirit brought out on Memorial Day. "Causes live though generations die, for a country does not forget the valor and sacrifice of youth... On Memorial Day we bury petty things. Big things seem bigger and the small things smaller...
...Massachusetts," the Congressman continued, "people, judging from the conditions around them say that nobody desires nor intends to support the enforcement of prohibition. But these narrow observers forget that Massachusetts is among the wettest, of the forty-eight states, and that beyond its limits the great majority of the country is really endorsing the law, and will continue to favor and uphold it as long as it is on the statute books, which will be until the day after the Judgment...
Mother Advocate has indeed, changed very slightly. She was always a little absent minded and impractical and she still clings to her absurd habit of writing verse. The Gentleman, on the other hand, has been content to forget the romantic tendencies of his youth and to plunge into the whirl of business, with the result that he has now a mansion, a gold watch fob, and a bank account of his own. But he has also something more valuable a reputation that none can respect and honor more than Mother Advocate. --Harvard Advocate...