Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course there's your host, the Vice President. He began by making all the Senators angry by proposing that they put a limit to their talk. Every now and then he still speaks of that limitation, but the whole incident seems in a fair way of being forgotten. You see that man with the iron grey hair and iron jaw-rather a fine figure -that is Senator Jim Reed, a Democrat. He is dissociated from his Democratic colleagues but he has put up a fine fight on nearly every issue that has come before this Congress. He poured forth...
...undergraduate bodies of the colleges should lose their enthusiasm simply because the great American people over-emphasize the annual competition. Toreadors have to eater to the Spanish public; football players don't in America. Here the public goes wild for a brief period, but it is all forgotten before the hockey season is under way. If the players have been able to keep their feet on the ground, no one has been the worse for the wear...
Comes terrifically the storm on Masterson's yacht. For one brief hour all his self-doubting and humility are forgotten as he drives his yacht through the deadly seas. Power, command, cunning, endurance are his in the thunder and torrent. Proudly, happily weary, when dawn breaks upon conquered seas, he descends to the cabins. He would go to his wife. Outside her door he finds his Abyssinian servant, crouching, knife in hand...
...Liberty was introduced on the first official U.S. dollar. The model's name is forgotten, but her hair hung loose on her shoulders. In 1795 she was given a Phrygian cap. After 1804 it was coined no more...
...forgotten my margate rock' [a species of rock candy...