Word: forgottenness
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Comes terrifically the storm on Masterson's yacht. For one brief hour all his self-doubting and humility are forgotten as he drives his yacht through the deadly seas. Power, command, cunning, endurance are his in the thunder and torrent. Proudly, happily weary, when dawn breaks upon conquered seas, he descends to the cabins. He would go to his wife. Outside her door he finds his Abyssinian servant, crouching, knife in hand...
...Liberty was introduced on the first official U.S. dollar. The model's name is forgotten, but her hair hung loose on her shoulders. In 1795 she was given a Phrygian cap. After 1804 it was coined no more...
...public which had nearly forgotten the Wood who captured Geronimo, the Wood who cleaned up Cuba, the Wood who hobnobbed with kings and kaisers, saw him depart for the Philippines with the rank of Governor General. Babbitts, great and small, gave but a slangy moment's pity to the man who had "missed out." For so it seemed. In the Philippines no glory could be gained...
...forgotten my margate rock' [a species of rock candy...
...told you so," at every well-known incident. If ever there was a man who likes to get back to the root of things, Mr. Maltby has shown himself to be such when looked upon in the light of the jokes resurrected from their honored, and, I had hoped, forgotten graves...