Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day was Washington's Birthday. Congressmen listened solemnly to the invocation by Chaplain James S. Montgomery, heard George Washington's farewell address, delivered by Representative Marion T. Bennett of Missouri. Then Michigan's labor-baiting Clare Hoffman got the floor and the House forgot all about George Washington and Bill Gallagher, too. Clare Hoffman was barely set on his feet when he began to flail away at the C.I.O., the P.A.C. and the Communists. Michigan's Frank E. Hook, supported by C.I.O.-P.A.C. in the last election, broke in to defend his friends. Said...
That magnificent character, the British Lion, forgot his Anglican manners last week, got up on his hind legs, and roared right in the face of his U.S. ally. The roar raised a transatlantic gale, but it also vented British vapors which had accumulated during five years of mannerly restraint. Afterward, the Lion felt better. The American objects of his spleen knew a little more about him and perhaps about themselves. British-U.S. relations may even have been improved by the week's exchange. Said the New York Sun: "A steady diet of mutual admiration and respect would...
...Checks & Balances. The fate of Rome haunts a modern world that has been unable to solve its own social problems, either domestic or international, and Durant makes the most of hundreds of parallels. Rome, like the U.S.A., discovered the secret of check-&-balance republican government, yet forgot its secret when the clamor of pressure groups broke down the old tradition of limited terms of office. A Cincinnatus, called from his plow to save the State, returned to his farm as soon as the crisis was over. But when Sulla and Julius Caesar violated the precedent, the Republic sank back into...
...bought six Croft lily bulbs for 60?, scoffed when he was told they would make his fortune. Tony was a forgetful windowsill gardener; he put the bulbs in coffee cans, forgot to water them and the plants withered. Disgusted, Tony threw the bulbs across the street into an empty lot. Later he found them revived among the weeds. He poked them into the ground between garlic plants in his garden because "garlic keeps da boogs away." Next season he was rewarded with 41 bulbs and bulblets worth $4.10. Then Tony heard the cash register ring...
...have forgot much, Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out out of mind . . . I have been faithful to thee, Cynara, in my fashion...