Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detail-the price of horse feed-he drank a glass of milk at Harrisburg-a friend of his father's kissed him after a sermon he had offered in return for a night's hospitality. He felt himself to be a pioneer of sorts and never forgot he was a man-although a very young man-of God. He stayed in Pittsburgh for over 40 years- until 1870. He became a root of the growing town, both as a preacher and landowner. He shrewdly bought up land in East Liberty and subdivided it and sold the lots...
...remainder of the cast was good and the audience was more than attentive. In face, at the end of the third act they were so carried along by the rush of the play that they forgot to applaud as the curtain came down. Such a tribute is rare in Boston and there is reason to believe that it was deserved...
...Philip Yale Drew, actor; at London. Thrice married before, she once wrote the 'story of her busy love life for the Hearst papers. Excerpt: "One vernal spring morning Prince Hitendra [of Cooch Behar] asked me to marry him, but I was so startled at this unexpected proposal that I forgot I was already married, and told him bluntly I could never marry a black...
...play before an audience that sits and stares like so many wooden Indians as they do in Philadelphia. But just the same it is fun because it is a sort of game. There is always something different, just like the other night when I missed my one and forgot to come on the stage. Poor Charlie (who incidentally happens to be Mr. Charles Purcell, the Chocolate Soldier in person) was making impromptu speeches and at the same time muttering under his breath, 'where the devil's MacKenzie', in a most terrifying fashion. When I finally appeared smiling sweetly he gave...
...immersed in his pleasant scholar's routine was Parson Dottery that he clean forgot the Bishop's visitation: when that worthy arrived to hold confirmation, all confirmable youths and maidens were at Shelton fair. So pretty Lottie Truggin, already confirmed, had episcopal hands laid on her again. Thus began Parson Dottery's troubles. But everyone, with the exception of the evil-minded Canon Dib-ben, his no less evil-minded wife, did what they could to help their parson: his housekeeper, Mrs. Taste, his sexton, Truggin, Farmer Spenke, Publican Toole. Everybody in the village was a character...