Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Asked when he committed his first murder, Kuerten said reminiscently, "Just before the War, in 1913 at Mulheim near Cologne. I had entered a house to rob, but I found a little girl there asleep.* I forgot my intention of stealing as a blood lust came over me for the first time. I strangled her. Then I cut her throat...
...messenger boy. That troubled Joseph Rosenstein, because he felt it made him look like a sudden-wonder prodigy whereas he has studied music for years, been generally well educated. He did not rent a dress suit for his Chicago Symphony concert. He bought one, only he forgot to try it on beforehand, found at concert time that the trousers were four inches too long, beyond benefit of suspenders. He borrowed other trousers, played brilliantly...
Mother Catherine's mantle descended upon Mother Rita, whose career was last week checked by the public administrator. Although they owed neither debts nor taxes, the followers of Mother Catherine lost their temple. She forgot to make a will and left no heirs. The public administrator had to do his duty and order a public auction, the proceeds going to the State treasury after deducting official fees. Mother Rita declared that if the building were sold, the entire city of New Orleans would be destroyed by flood "so quickly that no one would have time to speak...
...military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kléber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...
Later a victorious Pomeranian regiment was quartered in the college with Ferdinand Foch and his schoolmates. The Pomeranians were great-bearded men. They smoked china pipes, smelled of beer and onions, scowled ferociously. Ferdinand Foch never forgot that either. It helped develop his faculties...