Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they would swear by a trusted Ford or a well-tried almanac. He knows an amazing number of them personally. Twenty years ago this month, when he had already served fourteen years in Congress, he was quoted in the New York Sun as saying that he never forgot a name, that he never failed to shake a hand thrust out at him, that he never failed to answer a letter, and that his personal correspondence had been known to exceed twenty thousand letters annually...
There was one fact about Heflin you forgot to mention, however, namely his ability to tell colored stories. As Will Rogers says: If the Senator, instead of spouting about Al Smith and the Catholics, would confine himself to telling colored stories, he would then be really doing something worthwhile...
Stepping slowly behind, came a proud bay charger, the favorite mount of a Field Marshal who never forgot that he was first and always a cavalryman. Now Earl Haig's high black boots rested empty in the stirrups with their toes symbolically reversed...
...Eric Geddes, less the scholar-diplomat, more the born executive, came young to the U. S. from England and forgot social caste while he worked for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Soon he went out to build bridges, tracks and soaring trestles in India. Returning, he won further experience with the British North-Eastern Railway...
...Lexington, Ky. five rattlesnakes were killed. Into their den at the University of Kentucky a small rat was introduced, prospective meal for the snakes. Sleepy, the reptiles forgot their supper. Hungry, the rat attacked the snakes; killed all of them...