Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the curtain went up and soon AÏda, the slave girl, started to sing. Immediately the audience forgot its hostile pashas, thought only of her. After the act she was cheered, and called back a dozen times. So excited was U. S. Minister William M. Jardine that he violated a sacred tradition of the opera house, went back stage to congratulate her. Minister Jardine knew something of her story. Though her immigrant parents had shaken their heads, Anna Turkel had left her home and the seven younger Turkels in Woonsocket. R. I., had gone to Manhattan with...
...17th green Tradesman Trimingham won, two up and one to go. Back from the club in an open barouche rode the royal brothers through lines of cheering Bermudians, solemnly shook hands with 650 chosen people. So thrilled was one Bermuda lady at the prospect of meeting royalty that she forgot to put on a skirt...
...these circumstances," announced the Admiralty, "thirty seamen so far forgot their duties as to remain below and shut themselves in when ordered to parade on deck for duty. ... In consequence, the men were arrested and taken in custody to the naval barracks...
...talk to her unconscious mother when they were alone. When the rest of them prevailed on Rachel to take a vacation she thought it almost sinful to leave her post, but when she got to her cousin's seaside cottage, among boys & girls her own age, she forgot her Mission and had a good time. Clive, poor but brilliant embryo-scientist, fell in love with her immediately, swept her off her feet. But their engagement grew longer & longer. When he got a flatteringly good job in Zurich Clive wanted Rachel to marry him and go there, but she refused...
...beggar woman. His wife shuddered and said: "Suppose I should come to that." Chapin, already planning suicide, feared what might befall his wife after he was gone. That night in their room in the Hotel Plaza, he shot her, watched for two hours until she was dead. Then he forgot his plan to kill himself, walked the town and rode the subway all night, mechanically turned toward his office in the morning. On his way, a headline caught his eye: "Charles Chapin Wanted for Murder." He walked into police headquarters...