Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excitement, there's one thing we forgot: Petrillo. Petrillo. Petrillo...
...surprising that a man whose father was a lawyer, judge, and state senator, and whose mother was arrested when she was over 80 because she "forgot where she was and stepped on the gas" should possess both unusual mental acuity and a lasting love for Law. "I've always found plenty to keep me busy," says Professor Roscoe Pound, who, like many other famous men, has the ability to master more than one field of knowledge...
Simon Elwes did not realize it but a seed had been planted in him. At the time, however, he all but forgot the experience. "The world of the flesh and the devil," he says, "took me back." In that world he prospered. He married a daughter of Lord Rennel of Rodd, fathered three sons. In London's Mayfair and on Manhattan's Park Avenue he established himself as a stylish portraitist. During World War II, Elwes served as a lieutenant colonel in the Tenth Hussars. Then last year, suddenly, blood clotted on his brain, paralyzing the right half...
When the U.S. and Britain signed the Bermuda air agreement, the fight for recognition of the five freedoms of the air* seemed to have been won. But U.S. air officials forgot one thing which the British did not. Neither nation was committed to write the five freedoms into its pacts with other countries...
...third of Quebec's 3½ million, missing the daily 7 p.m. episode of Un Homme would have been as unthinkable as substituting English for French. Listeners hissed Miser Seraphim Poudrier as he added to his $70,000 hoard and forgot to mention his avarice at confession. They sent gifts to his wife, Donalda, symbol of saintly suffering. These two main characters are so real that in Quebec "Seraphim" now means "miser," and good Catholics are "as saintly as Donalda...