Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week one shrewd doctor decided that she had hiccoughed so long she had forgotten what it was like not to hiccough, was therefore psychologically incapable of helping herself. He gave her a strong, nauseating drug, put her to sleep. When she awoke her mind was so occupied with her new, counter-irritating misery that she forgot to hiccough, was cured...
...civic righteousness and enforcement of the law. ... I want to make this statement fearlessly while I stand on my feet: The great South, the great West and the great women of America* are for Prohibition and we shall have passed from the scene-I hope we shall not be forgotten-when Prohibition will still be here...
...back into your memories!" doomed the cello. "Have you forgotten that it was at the moment of Verdun that America joined us in the War? ... I had then the formidable honor of being the head of the Government of France. I know whereof I speak. The enemy was in the suburbs of Verdun. Those were hours of anguish! No one then believed that victory would perch upon our flags...
...remained on the hillsides 130 homes were destroyed, more than million-dollar damage was done. The dwellings of wealthy Ralston White, Lucian Marsh, Charles Coles, Mrs. Mary Webber Fisk, German Consul Kurt Zeigler, had been devoured. And as fire in a forest will sometimes lay bare a landmark half-forgotten, one ash-heap in Mill Valley stood out in despatches with historical significance. It was the home of Col. Andrew Summers Rowan, U. S. A. retired, onetime world hero, the man who "carried the message to Garcia...
...little printed. Working for the Brown Derby in Washington last year were goateed Charles S. ("Buck") Hayden of the Nashville Banner, whiteheaded Robert Moores Gatee of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Their blunders ? for example, calling Candidate Hoover a "fat candidate from Piccadilly"?have not yet been forgotten...