Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...doubt he had forgotten the appointment, a poet's privilege, just as he seems to have forgotten that originally he promised to emerge from retirement on All Saints Day (Nov. 1, 1926). Only news scriveners and such still remember. In the orchideous, inscrutably furnished house of Poet D'Annunzio at Gardonne the world is easily forgotten...
...season prognosticators, whose predictions are generally soon forgotten by all but themselves, have been especially active this spring. During no previous winter have rosters of the big teams undergone such sweeping changes in personnel. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, fiery outfielder, has joined the Philadelphia American League club, after 22 consecutive years in a Detroit uniform; Edward Trowbridge Collins, ancient, honorable second baseman, has returned to the same Philadelphia club, after an interlude of twelve years with the Chicago Americans; Rogers Hornsby, slugger, manager of 1926 World's Champion St. Louis Nationals, has gone to the New York Nationals in trade...
...needs no permit and cannot be punished for manufacturing "non-intoxicating cider and fruit juices exclusively for use in his own home." The law, purposely or otherwise, ignored the obvious fact that cider becomes hard, fruit juices gather alcoholic strength in time; Judge Hand added what the law had forgotten. Many Wets chuckled, said Dry-voting farmers might change their tune under a ruling that prohibits their hard cider and home-brewed wine...
...many, many writers who were great in their own time have been absolutely forgotten after their death. And, vice versa, many gained their fame years after their own time. Consider Keats and Shelley, even they found but small places among their contemporaries. Time is an uncertain thing. It is impossible to tell what it will...
Zweiger* who has apparently forgotten the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins, Secretary of War under Harrison and after that Republican Senator for 18 years, when he accuses West Virginia of being unproductive of great...