Word: oblivion
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...York State's recent repeal of its prohibition enforcement law the assembly declared: "This action, and any other act of nullification, merits the indignation of true Americans everywhere and presages early political oblivion for its perpetrators...
...Raven to tatters on the slightest provocation, the cadaverous youth who was so comic delivering Farmer Corn-tassel at the County Fair ? these, with the hansom-cab-driver and the professor of penmanship who drew little birds with flowing scrolls in their beaks, are rapidly passing into oblivion. Alas...
...University's past creates a common background for the changing generations. Efforts like those of the Father and Son Societies, recently made effective by the "Sons of 1901", serve to bind the past more closely with the present, and to save the best of these traditions from oblivion...
...series of disillusionments, in chance meetings with street- walkers, bums, financiers. At one point he tries a bottle of rat poison, but finds in it not oblivion but a stomach ache. The girl is more successful in her choice of poisons, and dies on his hands-finding some satisfaction in the reflection that she dies clean. He is unfortunately jailed; and is visited by his father, who tries unsuccessfully to bring him back to Iowa. The play ends up with an astounding nightmare, in the course of which all the minor characters dance about him, tempting or mocking...
...mere lapse of a few milleniums is not enough to relegate a custom of the past to oblivion. Life, perhaps, is fleeting, but time is short. When a certain Pharoah was embalmed and laid away in his royal tomb in the hillside, a mouse happened to wander in with his funeral procession. When the slaves sealed up the gate the mouse lay down beside the king, and so they were found when the archaeologists broke in--companions in eternity...