Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Englishmen an introduction not only into the physical. Harvard but to the type of its governors. The CRIMSON takes pleasure in adding its welcome to that officially extended by the University and hopes that the comparisons between the different American institutions visited will not leave Harvard entirely forgotten...
...such summary fashion did that super-journalist, Arthur Brisbane, dispose of an item of financial information that had appeared on the front page of almost every U. S. newssheet. He had apparently forgotten to point out the name of the little-known man who had been elected, with John P. Morgan, the new chairman of the board, and James Augustine Farrell, new chief executive officer, to control the enormous destinies of the United States Steel Corporation. This was Myron Charles Taylor who had been made head of the finance committee...
...Habersham resides with her elder and married daughter Alice May, who is stupider, prettier, lazier than her mother; visiting Alice May are her two aunts, Sallie and Natalie, both quite credibly prurient and unattractive. The entrance of Laura Habersham, Mrs. Habersham's second daughter, who has so far forgotten her Southern breeding as to become the mother of a child without wedlock, strikes her mother, sister and aunts like an unaccustomed cold douche. The demure plot of Southern Charm consists of the anticipation and then the actuality of Laura's arrival. But Author Glenn does not overlook...
...Steamship line offered to transport the mummies to Plymouth free of charge, if they didn't mind riding with a cargo of hemp. At the quay in Plymouth the United States Custom officers demanded itemized and minute descriptions of all the cargo. Here was another puzzle. The mummies had forgotten their names...
...Gardens in the spring, an excellent array of burlesque houses, beans, the intersection of Boylston and Tremont streets on a windy day, an interesting and odiferous market section, an Irish aristocracy which came over on the Mayflower, an English aristocracy which came over so long ago that it has forgotten the exact era, a charmingly decrepit business district, and good train and boat connections elsewhere. There are other assets but these save the city from utter blacklisting...