Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hands with the Tsar's murderers did not arise. At that time Russia had only a chargé d'affaires in London, and mere chargés need not meet the Crown. Ambassadors are different, but all last week Cousin George V remained adamant. "I have not forgotten," said...
...meeting of Franklin and Voltaire: when Ben presented his grandson to the philosopher and asked for a blessing, Voltaire "blessed him in the name of God and Liberty. None in the audience could restrain their tears. Love was such a pressing need in the 18th Century! They had forgotten that Monsieur de Voltaire had scarcely any faith in Liberty and none...
Every U. S. schoolboy knows about the fight in Hampton Roads between the Monitor and the Merrimac, and about the naval battle in Mobile Bay, when Farragut said, "Damn the torpedoes! Jouett, full speed! Four bells, Captain Drayton!" But many a schoolboy's parents may have forgotten how one man played a principal role in both duels, was wounded in both. He was Franklin Buchanan, Admiral, Confederate States Navy...
...others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten to ask you to finance me with a hat similar to the one which the Bishop of Valence, Messire Loys de Poictiers, gave me, which he said he had brought from Rome. I think it was of some felt other than beaver, a good inch thick, covering the shoulders...
...line, he got into hot water with his holy employers and had to leave Venice once more. Thence his decline was rapid: still a spy (though now on a commission basis, no longer salaried), he fell even lower, and died an obscure literary hack, "prolific writer of forgotten novels, libellous pamphlets, histories, poems, biographies and mathematical works...