Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...function of that day was a convocation of Parliament to hear the Royal assent to a series of bills (a U. S.-Canada trade agreement, a wheat subsidy, the Dominion budget), something brand-new to Canada and a prerogative of the King-Emperor almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep...
...curtsied wrong-ways (right foot behind the left). Then Cecile departed from protocol. She rushed over and kissed the Queen. In a trice Elizabeth, lonesome despite the previous day's telephone call to her own two daughters, was on her knees in a flurry of kissing Quintuplets. Forgotten man for the moment was the King, in his Navy uniform, but Yvonne fixed that, running to him and taking his hand. Soon they were in brisk French conversation over the King's Navy buttons...
...same time, in Ankara the Kamutay (Turkish parliament) unanimously approved the alliance. Premier Refik Saydam told the deputies that Turkey had once thought that the country's best course was to remain neutral, but that recent aggressions in the Balkans had made neutrality impossible. Not forgotten, moreover, was the fact that Italy possesses the heavily armed Dodecanese Islands, only a few miles off Turkey's mainland...
...president, William Gibson Carey Jr. (head of Yale & Towne Mfg. Co., hardware), who in personal contacts is a kind of fun-loving Tom Rover. Drafted because he is "a victim of his friends" where Civic Virtue is concerned, President Carey explained that to him the Capitalist is "The Forgotten Man, 1939." He is committed to winning "commonsense legislation...
...magicians, fortune tellers and poets have made night and dreams their province, interpreting the troubled images that float through men's sleeping minds as omens of good & evil. Only of late have psychologists asserted that dreams tell nothing about men's future, much about their hidden or forgotten past. In dreams, this past floats, usually uncensored and distorted, to the surface of their slumbering consciousness...