Word: oblivion
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...were not led to believe anything; they were called upon to surrender all their beliefs and unite in a cause for which many may have had little personal feeling. That they were able to submerge their individual beliefs and their personal emotions, and ride forth into obscurity and oblivion when the trumpet blew, should win the profoundest reverence of those of us to whom a more fortunate world allows the indulgence of individuality. Each generation establishes its own problems and its own duties. War was their problem; it was too late to undeclare it; no duty was left them...
...etre' of the militaristic movement; its supporters are men whose points of view are in most cases apparently behind the times, but who are aware of the necessity for a unified national front, political and economic, if Japan is to be prevented from falling back into its nineteenth century oblivion...
...spite apart from other considerations, sufficient for a name in be listed among the White House eligibles. Such are the magic properties of being a governor, a senator or a speaker of the house that immediately one becomes simply an ex-so-and-so the gate of early oblivion is open and he is an exceptional man who can escape its tragic magnetism for long...
...modest Henry concealed in the first initial. Who was this man Jones? A study of the catalogue reveals that he is either a 19th or 20th century dramatist. Obviously he is a man of the people with a stout English heart, otherwise he would never have sought the oblivion inevitable to his name. Probably he was associated with the Irish movement. This, we must grant you, is purely intuitional on our part but faith has often succeeded where cold reason has feared to tread. Ireland, the home of the mystic Celt, and the fearsome Gael has always lured the adventurous...
...procedure, but at some time during his residence, scrawny Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. chased Mr. Arno across the landscape with an unloaded revolver. Mr. Arno included no incident quite so funny in his Here Goes the Bride, which perhaps accounted for the fact that the show went into oblivion after seven performances, together, it was understood, with a sizeable amount of money amounting to six figures belonging to John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, Long Is land sportsman...