Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dessert of red currant ice cream in brandy-snap cups. As she slings the liquid sugar onto a laundry rack with a flick of her whisk, Stewart effortlessly alternates advice ("The hot sugar can get stuck in your cats' fur. Keep them out of the room") and anecdotes ("I forgot to buy regular squares of beeswax, so I am taking a little bit of the foundation that I use in my beehive"). No matter that her audience is only a camera. In fact, that is terrific: the more eyes on Martha, the better...
...They forgot to tell the Crimson...
...cornerstone on Oct. 13, 1792. An unknown Philadelphian related in a letter that the Freemasons had paraded from Georgetown to the site, placed a plaque between two stones, then returned to "Mr. Suter's Fountain Inn, where an elegant dinner was provided," followed by 16 toasts. The celebrators understandably forgot to record where the cornerstone and plaque were laid...
This sounds like overstatement, and probably was. But Cheever, as he confided in another letter, believed that "interest is the first canon of aesthetics." Whatever he wrote about -- his work, his wife and children, his Labrador retrievers, his problems with alcohol and homosexuality -- he never forgot to keep his correspondent engaged and amused. Those who received his letters were lucky. This book extends the range of their good fortune...
...Someone forgot to finish the rink. Who left that wall open...