Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...introduced, the minor ones involve themselves in minor episodes, but nothing much ever happens to the hero. One love-affair fizzles out, another is aborted, but these are merely by the way. When at last the formidable grandfather dies, Bernard has been in the rut too long and has forgotten his dreams. The cloth-mills are the inevitable, the Fates, to Bernard Quesnay. Their prosperity, strikes, slumps, trade-wars, absorb the hero until at last he is absorbed by the mills...
...expects something different from Professor Perry. Characteristically he has written a preface, entitled "The Author's Apology," in an age that has forgotten apologies for such titles as "Tramping on Life." More important, and infinitely pleasing, is the contrast between the tranquil vigor of his prose and the flurried bristling style affected by so many modern essayists...
Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...
These were mild eulogies, spoken by men who might not now be alive, were it not for the sanitary, antiseptic methods which Lister taught the midwives of his time. Many men have forgotten Joseph Lister's work in antisepsis. Few now know the meaning of "to listerize" and of "listerism," words brought into the language as a tribute to him. Were it not for the Lambert Pharmacal Co.'s broadcasting of Listerine (aromatic antiseptic), his name would have disappeared altogether from the colloquial tongue...
...never did a man himself come closer to being in his biography than the late George Cram Cook now comes. Susan Glaspell, the wife with whom he lived his richest years, is an attentive woman. She appears to have seen him whole and in part, forgotten nothing. Her spirit is great enough to put self entirely aside except at moments of the greatest intimacy and importance-the very moments when an inferior nature would have quailed ox bridled. She has recreated and interpreted times and persons she could not have shared, with a quality of understanding that makes the book...