Word: forgottenness
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...worm may turn, the native of the Michigan metropolis may show them that Detroit's income tax figures are not her only boast; the census substantiates-their claim of being city folks. And while they are in full possession of the art of making dollars, neither have they quite forgotten the art of keeping them...
...play. Undeniably it is written badly. There are moments when Mr. Connelly's genius for portraying the 'homus Americanus' is allowed full sway, and what takes place behind the footlights then becomes amusing and interesting. But when he ventures into the land of elves and gnomes and a forgotten boyhood, Connelly so patently lacks grace and deftness that the result is heavy-handed beyond words. Once or twice he revives sufficiently to shake off the unfortunate claims of fantasy and inserts such a scene as that between a couple of truculent schoolboys, but not often, and these rare seconds...
...welfare of the student body must be pleased at the offer of a prize for the best essay on the feeding of undergraduates; and must hope that it will help to remedy the most unsatisfactory condition in the social life of the University. The students seem to have forgotten that gregarious animals and civilized men feed together, and that meals have a social as well as a nutritive value. Under the recent habit of eating around they are not aware of the pleasant hours, the interesting talk and the lifelong friendships that come from the club tables of former times...
...regular athletic duties. Likewise, one of his assistants is teaching in an undergraduate department. The Freshman football Coach, furthermore, is entering his second year as an instructor of history. These and other admirable examples that we could cite would seem to prove that we have not entirely forgotten that amateur ideal of sport...
...last year when he snatched a pass, and is a slashing defensive player as well. Coach Tasker of the Williamsburg aggregation has built up an offense around these two veteran back. Last year Harvard was primed for a vaunted aerial attack, so primed in fact that ordinary defense was forgotten and the Southerners changed their tactics and gained extensively on all sorts of world running plays...