Word: forgot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Forgotten Man. "At first it wasn't so bad'" says Brougham, "because Hearst forgot he had a Seattle paper. I threw his editorials on the floor and ran local stuff. . . ." In 1929 Hearst remembered, and Brougham went back to sports-but at a bigger salary than his successor...
...Shawcross, who had given up all hope of catching the Queen Elizabeth, realized that the big ship was still at her pier when he cast his last vote. He telephoned the Cunard Line, made a flying trip to his hotel, packed, hustled to the dock. In the scramble he forgot his passport. His secretary got it to him, in a basket pulled up on a line, just as the ship was moving...
...backed by Britain and the U.S., asked to have the matter adjudicated by the International Court of Justice. But many delegates watched the appealing, sari-clad figure of India's Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, who dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief), and they forgot the World Court. Mrs. Pandit had previously claimed that "Jesus Christ Himself . . . would be a prohibited immigrant [to South Africa]." The two countries were instructed (32-to-15, with seven abstentions) to compose their differences in the spirit of the Charter, report to the Assembly next September. This in effect...
...Clowns are the world's incompetents. They are bound to the wheel of incompetence or they cease to be clowns. Chaplin once, in The Gold Rush, broke the underlying significance of his role and spoiled a great film. He forgot Chariot the outcast to become a millionaire and marry the girl, like any John Gilbert or Ronald Colman. Clowns cannot possibly stoop to such romance. They are, in essence, super realists . . . tragedians in disguise. Their endings are happy for everyone but themselves...
...Matthias Coady. His ringing voice, ruddy features and muscular 250 pounds are familiar all over the Maritimes. He was born on a farm in a Nova Scotian village, tiny Margaree Forks, which had poverty aplenty. He studied in Antigonish, in Rome, and in Washington, taught school, preached, but never forgot his birthplace...