Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will work for peace and we will work for the security not only of our country, but for the security of peace. But let no one think that in seeking the security and peace of the world this Government will neglect its first charge of providing security for its own country." At the conclusion of his speech there were loud cries of affichage (printing and posting of the speech throughout France). After some dissension, caused by Alexander Varenne, Socialist leader, trying to introduce a supplementary sentence to the speech, affichage was carried 541 to 32 votes, the Opposition, Communists excepted...
...question, recently broadcast by the Wellesley newspaper, "When Saul was sent out, to look for his father's asses, why did he neglect Cambridge?" is answered...
...life of the time; and the author in his turn has been able to embellish them with many an observation drawn from his immense knowledge of the period. The reader learns that George I was depressed at becoming King of England, that Lady Suffolk upbraided her royal lover for neglect, that life with the German Georges was not quite as dull from the inside as it appears from the outside...
...verdict. The twelfth suffered a nervous collapse and was forced to leave the box, counsel agreeing to continue with a jury of eleven. Two of the jury were married during the trial. A special act of the Massachusetts Legislature gave the jurors extra compensation on account of the prolonged neglect of their business. Verdict was given for the plaintiff in $10,534,109 damages...
...Prof. George Pierce Baker and his famed school of dramatic technique, the 47 Workshop, had best be reconverted from studios to bed rooms, the Workshop closed for the year, Prof. Baker set off for a well-earned sabbatical, and the Crimson (undergraduate daily) scored the authorities for "polished neglect" of Prof. Baker and his work. Nothing notable in this situation-until, last week, adroitly timed as such things usually are, a windfall landed in the lap of Yale University. Edward S. Harkness, Manhattan Maecenas, gave $1,000,000 to the Yale School of Fine Arts for the establishment...