Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joint he says and seeing how our old meeting place, the Subway Rotunda is soon to come down, why not have a hotel lobby to hang out in? And by gosh there is something in that that the Planning Board and the rest of the University Gang should not forget. Jimmie Waldorf $5G.B...
...Have we lost the American spirit that fought Great Britain? Nor would I have my government-the best there is in the world-forget what compulsory expatriation means to an American citizen. We shall refuse to desert 10,000 American citizens who relied on the word of our Government. As for myself, I shall refuse to palter with conscience, I shall refuse to be a party to the abandonment of American citizens...
...Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower, and can claim blue blood equal to the bluest of the blue...
...Shaw and Wells (who does not like Karl Marx's beard) think we made an idol of Marx. They forget that the teachings of Marx have conquered a sixth part of the world, and disregard the probability that the masses will eventually take over world power, cutting off many ruling heads...
...people's labour is not yet generally accepted. But in recent years a "leisure class" has begun to emerge, and it exhibits all the usual characteristics. Especially on the Atlantic seaboard, where contact with Europe is continual, the grandchildren of men who made money are already beginning elaborately to forget how it was made, are beginning to employ as much unnecessary labour as possible, because it is expensive, and to change their fashions as often as costumiers can invent new ones, because to wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that...