Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...romance of the reaper and the life of its prophet are forgotten, perhaps, in the cities. But in the fields of the world, men hitch everything from gas tractors to camels and musk oxen ahead of their harvesting machinery and marvel, as regularly as the world's cereals ripen, at the power over the earth given them by one man's brain...
...memory of General Artemas Ward of the class of 1748, the income to be applied among other things "to establish his reputation, too long neglected as a devoted and faithful friend of his country", one more soldier of the Revolution will be rescued from the limbo of almost forgotten generals whose chief glory seems to exist, according to the popular mind, in a solitary monument on some old battlefield, or in the musty texts of arid histories and encyclopedias...
...when the Orthodox Paradox is a forgotten conversational convention and one must talk radio or stocks to be understood there is still Romance, though it be a little tawdry and shopworn from the treatment it gets at the hands of the Hot-Snappy-True Story magazines. And when the audience thought that the Circle was going on the conversational rocks Maugham rushed forward with a pink scarf labelled Romance...
...talk I ever received in my life was given me by Mr. House, inciting ambition to be something in the world; inciting ambition to live a straight life and keep sober and to be industrious, and that was the lecture I received from Mr. House, and I have never forgotten it; and I owe to him a statement of this little angle of his life...
...yesterday's political leaders as they were, and of today's political leaders as they then were, pictures of the stage as it was, scores of popular songs now forgotten?or almost so. To anyone over 35 it will bring a renewed sense' of the progress he has forgotten, of the things for which he lived in days only a little gone by?a feeling at once poignant and a bit sad to see how completely yesterday has vanished...