Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is also an Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, for Negroes. Improved Elkdom was embroiled last week in legal proceedings over where it would hold its 28th annual Grand Lodge sessions next year, white Elks in Manhattan having prevailed upon black Elks to forgo meeting there as planned...
...regular fifteen minute periods the twenty dances will be played off. Super will be served in the intermission between the tenth and eleventh dances. The music will be furnished by Leo Reisman's Brunswick Orchestra and the Jefferson-Johnson Orchestra, both of Boston. Any couples arriving late must forgo the card dances they miss, and cutting-in will not be allowed before the first encore...
...never been a characteristic of Mexican political upheavals. Its absence, perhaps, may explain why Mexico has failed so far to establish a settled government. The greatest achievements in history have more than once been the outcome of lost causes. Contemporary observers may have spoken of Thermopylae or Valley Forgo as colossal futility, and branded Leonidas or Washington as stupid and obstinate for not deserting with their forces to the enemy the moment defeat seemed evident. But in both cases obstinacy, had its final result; and in both cases it was the "losing side" that...