Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both cases the servicemen had found the broadcasts more entertaining than disturbing. Both Sally and Rose had almost been forgotten by everyone. When silver-haired Mildred Gillars stepped from an Army transport plane in Washington at week's end (see cut), the only real point of interest was why the Justice Department had suddenly decided to make up for two years' lost time...
...triumph for Earl-but only a political mosquito bite to the Kingfish. Huey went on about his frenetic business. Earl was all but forgotten...
Once a fiery advocate of Puerto Rican independence, Munoz now believes that both independence and statehood are best forgotten while the island builds up its economic health. His platform: industrialization, expansion of the social legislation which he wrote in the days before Governor Rexford G. Tugwell* arrived, a new Pureto Rican constitution by revision or replacement of the present Organic Act-to provide that no changes shall be made in Puerto Rico's governmental system without consulting the islanders...
...boat by giving the battle of Trafalgar a scant squib, but scooped the town on the outbreak of the Crimean War. In 1820 it broke the law by printing news of a trial before it was over. Fined ?500, the paper refused to pay; the law was soon forgotten...
Ives: Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (John Kirkpatrick, pianist; Columbia, 9 sides). Written around 1913 by the long "forgotten" U.S. composer who is a recluse in Connecticut, this sonata, has been called "the greatest music composed by an American," which is neither true nor saying so much as it seems to. Listeners will find it hard digging at first, but there is gold there. The performance is better than the dull recording...