Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very Reverend Dean's little speech changed the whole atmosphere of Australia. Roaring with rage, the Commonwealth's high-blood-pressured politicians forgot their local strife last week in attacking Dean Johnson's "outburst of ignorance." Cried Premier Forgan Smith of the Australian State of Queensland which adjoins the vast and almost vacant Northern Territory: "As a means of smashing the British Commonwealth of Nations no more effective scheme could be devised...
Asked to make up a sentence using the words "hunter," ''dog.'' "forest." "gun," "rabbit," Banker Harriman drew an elaborate picture of a dark and gloomy forest, but forgot the gun. Asked to name five fish, he included a lobster and a shark...
...with her clothes, is always late for appointments, is not at all hard to look at, likes the sweet tenors on the radio, plays a little contract, likes the movies and sentimental poetry and has just received a license to punish the family car. Oh! yes-and I almost forgot to say that she plans and administers the family budget with a close hand (though this may be proving too much) and yet devours TIME from cover to cover, and insists upon no less than two years subscription at a time. Is it necessary to say that this woman...
There was free champagne. Many jealous Russian emigrés in Paris prudently forgot their high talk of '"boycotting" the ceremony and attended the wedding last week of Barbara Woolworth Hutton to "Prince" Alexis Mdivani in the Russian Church in Paris. The church was jammed. Three thousand people stood on the sidewalk, lost their tempers, punched each other's faces, nearly ruined the bride's dress (Patou) and had a grand time. There are no seats in a Russian church. For over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round...
...During the War Bennett lent the Velsa to the Admiralty, and it was afterwards sold, but he rarely turned down an invitation to go cruising. In 1927 he shipped as a guest of Otto Kahn on a Mediterranean yachting trip. Though he dressed the part of yachtsman, he never forgot his main business: in spite of bridge and cocktail-parties and sightseeing, he continued to log; his 1,000 words...