Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...puritanical in the unfavorable sense, to permit even the abundance of professorships to counteract its influence. The blue laws are as yet of too deep a hue to be dissolved by any pigment, whether it be red or merely a rosy pink. So until New England has forgotten the strain of her ancestors, the persecutors of Hester Prynne, she will continue to confuse issues and to forget, the phrase on the cacutcheon--"Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense...
...showing how too much philosophy was being inserted into callow brains. Educators were faced with a grave dilemma, when it seemed probable that the death rate of colleges would exceed applications for entrance. Soon came the Hall-Mills and Snyder-Gray murder cases, and the "youth suicide wave" was forgotten...
Unlike most who have made this covenant with God, Robert J. White, Massachusetts district attorney, remembered it after he recovered from an operation last year. With the dark hysteria of fever forgotten, he still could sense the hot languor of his sickroom, he still could feel the curious animation which had come when he handled the holy relic a priest had brought him. Yet he hesitated to fulfill his obligation until, when his mother died, he felt that God was frowning at him for forgetting a miracle...
...Atlantic City, N. J., Joseph Snyder, two, found himself forgotten. To attract someone's attention he tossed pebbles, large ones little ones at the shiny car of Charles Nash. Soon, in this way, he attracted the attention of Charles Nash who caused him to be arrested and taken to court, charged with malicious mischief. Here, a positive cynosure, Joseph Snyder burbled and gurgitated when the Magistrate Delger demanded that the prisoner be produced. "Where is he?" said the court, "I do not see the defendant." When the defendant, a sticky looking wad held in the arms of Mrs. Snyder, became...
...remember that Ben E. Stein of Seattle was runner-up in the 1926 Western Amateur Golf Championship?an obscure runner-up is easily forgotten. But last week when Ben E. Stein played one-under-par golf to defeat Eddie Held in the finals of the Western Amateur at Seattle, his friends in the Northwest began to boom him as a potential rival of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. and George von Elm in future U. S. Amateur Championships...