Word: oblivions
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...fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again for the biggest binge cosmopolite café society had seen in a doge...
...personally. Worse yet, Cowper's God was irrevocably determined to betray him at every turn in this life, and to torture him eternally in the next. Under this ghastly sentence, Cowper wretchedly took up, as he said, "the arduous task of being merry by force." He found temporary oblivion in lighthearted verse and in thousands of eloquent, cheerful letters to his friends...
...special compartment to hold golf clubs, such as is found in Packards of the early thirties? The rumble seat, famed in Americana, is now vanished with the cigar store Indian, and the touring car, fabled in our native lore, has folded its side curtains and drifted off into the oblivion of the junk yard, except for a few still kept running by aficianados...
...note of despondency that creeps into these volumes comes at the end, after Roosevelt had been elected Vice President. He wrote sadly: "The Vice President has no power and is really a fifth wheel to the coach. Also remember that it is not a stepping stone to anything except oblivion. I fear my bolt is shot...
...first, Ivor Brown, associate editor of the London Observer, thought of his hobby as nothing more than "easy, pleasant work that I could do in bed." From his midnight reading, he would jot down old and rare words whose color and flavor deserved rescue from oblivion. Later, he took to publishing his jottings, brought out six volumes in nine years. This week, with the U.S. publication of his latest two books, No Idle Words and Having the Last Word, in one volume (E. P. Dutton; $3), U.S. readers could go hunting for rescued relics to enrich their own speech. Samples...