Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knoxville, Tenn., a tall, greying man walking along a street suddenly forgot what his name last week had been, remembered that in 1911 it had been Edgar G. Allen of Ridgewood, N. J. From the past he remembered a brother, sister, two sons. A son and brother came, identified him. From the present in Madisonville, Tenn., his wife, Mrs. Ted Morris, whom he had married in 1912, and a daughter Dolores, 13, came, met his blank stare, his statement that he had no idea where he had been for 22 years. (He had been an automobile mechanic & salesman.) Weeping...
...found she was able to "be" where Pierre was, to see him walking the deck, sitting in his cabin, finally even to make him "see" that she was there. At this point their dangerous experimenting stopped. They never talked to each other about it, but neither of them ever forgot...
When Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old blackamoor, went from Cincinnati to Georgia to preach Communism he forgot that in 1866, to prevent white men from seizing the government, some Georgians of his own race, aided by carpetbaggers, had passed a law making it a capital offense to "attempt to incite to insurrection." Last week in Atlanta Angelo Herndon heard himself accused of attempting to set up a "Black State," heard Georgia's white assistant solicitor general ask twelve white men to condemn him to death...
...steps from a rickety frame house and the performance could have stopped then & there. People started cheering. Orchestra musicians rose to their feet. Scotti, who through all his long career has remained an artist, took one brief, graceful bow, reverted quickly to Chim-Fen, the opium dealer. People forgot that the dark hollow voice was only a shell of what it used to be. Chim-Fen's sinister shadow filled the stage while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap, buried a hatchet in the neck of the man who found him out. When...
Once upon a time there was a little boy who sold peanuts to his friends. Now the little boy's peanuts were not especially good, but his friends bought them because they forgot to stop at the corner store, and because he was a nice little boy even if he did forget to wash behind his ears...