Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first morning, after having been awakened too early and refused his customary black coffee, he was so angry that he forgot about being a drunkard, so exhausted and stimulated by rage he did not miss his usual morning half tumbler of Scotch. Thus the cure began. After he had bawled out doctors, nurses and the world in general, calling for a padded cell as preferable to modern scientific, heartless hypocrisy, another patient told him quietly: "Say, fellow, you've got it all wrong. You don't tell them. They tell you." Once he had accepted its concealed...
...steamer for Haifa sailed from Brindisi and, as one car raced across France toward the port, the other was smashed by a truck in Lyon. The cars became separated, the drivers got lost, then forgot where they had agreed to meet. But the whole party caught the boat at the last moment and the two cars were hoisted aboard...
...found time in his syndicated newspaper article yesterday to give a good word for Sims and some advice to the kiddies. "I have acknowledged Papa Sims as the second greatest card player in the country, but after watching him play the following hand, I, for the moment, forgot myself by stating publicly that he was the first and greatest card player in the world." In the light of this statement, and of the friendly little tiffs during the match, the following advice becomes pregnant with something or other: "My wife and I believe in teaching our children bridge...
Wherever Louis Wiley went he made acquaintances by the score, friends by the dozen. He was passionately proud of his acquaintance with celebrities. Whoever saw him once, never forgot him. His ingratiating personality made a sharp first impression; his compelling personality made the impression permanent. Like many a self-made man, he paid his underlings meagrely, but his private philanthropies were supposed to be prodigious...
...patient? We almost forgot. He just sat down in the corridor to wait until someone should recover and leave...