Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative, and are even inclined on occasion to feel a distinct sensation of guilt. No doubt these apostles of individual meditation have the friendliest of intentions. But they forget that even a smile under some circumstances may drive a man to madness and that their innocent promenade could possibly have any associations with water dripping with fatal regularity from an Inquisition tank to the head of a victim condemned to die by slow torture...
...realize it. I remember very vividly just how it feels to be hungry, damnably hungry, and not warm, and wondering where to sleep. Once you've had that, you can never afterward forget that somehow or other this society has a responsibility to its weak people who can't make peace with it enough to get on. Once you've been scorched-oh, well, I sound like a socialist...
Intermezzo's libretto, based on personal spats seldom so openly revealed, will cause some shrugging of shoulders, some sharper comment. Those who question the taste of such autobiography forget, possibly, that the world left him poor while he was creating some of its richest musical treasure; that publishers kept him whistling in the outer offices with immortal compositions grasped in numb fingers; that critics derided when first he wore his heart on his sleeve; that such experiences leave strange marks on sensitive natures...
Because quaint windmills slowly twirl on the famed Island of Marken, tourists forget that nearby Amsterdam is as populous as Boston. Legend has made the Netherlands "a little country." Therefore when news came last week of fresh Communist outbreaks in the Dutch East Indies, few U. S. citizens realized that almost half as many humans live under the Dutch flag as under the Stars and Stripes...
...President of the U. S.-nor even Vice President. In 1924 some of his friends at the Republican National Convention were preparing a good-sized boom for him for Vice President. "Boys, that's fine," said Mr. Davis in his jolly fraternal manner, "only don't forget that I was born in Wales...