Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...research into the source of the word shows that it was originally used colloquially by race-gangs [for] a shady character who lives by his wits, but without the physical or mental courage to show violence or turn burglar." A bookish reporter for the Daily Mail delved into a forgotten volume called The Autobiography of a Spiv, published in 1937. The word Spiv, he claimed after thorough study, had a 19th Century origin, connoting well-dressed or dandified...
...Commission, to the League of Nations. As one of the jurists appointed to draw up the statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice, he worked out a formula that won support for the Court from both great & small powers. Those were great days for Fernandes. He has not forgotten them, and somewhat wistfully has hoped that at Rio oldtime formality could be recaptured by the wearing of white ties at plenary session...
...Vision. On last week's birthday Bolívar's disappointments were forgotten. It was his vision that still counted. The man who began life wealthy, who died at 47 and was laid out in a borrowed nightshirt, wrote an epigram to be carried like a torch: "The liberty of America is the hope of the universe...
...Past Forgotten. Floyd Starr's thesis has since become a rallying cry: "We believe there is no such thing as a bad boy." In the first interview with a new boy, Starr likes to talk about anything but what has brought the boy there. "You're a big fellow," he is apt to say. "Ever play basketball? We have a fine team, but we need a center." The boys have work to do, but never as punishment (the only punishment is loss of vacation). Once a new pupil was assigned the job of sweeping the stairs and defiantly...
Hard on the Fresno rally, Chairman Roosevelt heard other shots-from the right. They came from plump, redheaded Tom Scully, well-to-do Los Angeles Democrat and ex-Democratic state treasurer, whom Jimmy had defeated for the state party chairmanship last year. Scully, an old Pauley disciple, had neither forgotten nor forgiven. For a year, Scully and the Pauley organization had sniped at Jimmy Roosevelt. Last week, Scully announced that he had assumed leadership of a Truman-for-President movement in opposition to the nominal party leadership of Chairman Roosevelt...