Word: forgottenness
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...political issue, Defense Day will probably turn out to be a "dud," forgotten as soon as the day is past. Only a few other Governors, such as Governor Sweet of Colorado, a progressive Democrat, and Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, a LaFollette supporter, fell in behind Governor Bryan...
...replica in the best Carrara marble. The State of North Carolina will pay the expense, and we, the Legislature of this Commonwealth, will place the replica on the steps of the State Capitol, where it will stand arousing the beating hearts of patriots when we are gone and, alas, forgotten, if that should...
...Indians went. Then the buffalos. Now the Brownies are almost gone. Who remembers them? They lived and flourished less than 20 years ago, their habitat neither forest nor prairies, but the pages of St. Nicholas Magazine and their own special books. They are almost gone because they are almost forgotten; children read about Abe Kabibble, Powerful Katinka and the Hall-Room boys. The other day Palmer Cox, artist and author, died at his home in Granby, Quebec. Everybody suddenly remembered the Brownies...
...lighthouse. The mountains close at hand furnish the marble. The primary notion was that of a memorial to the poet but it is now coupled with that of a symbol of the friendship between the two nations, of old date in spite of passing differences, and we have not forgotten that we had England's sympathy during our time of struggle." There has been a U. S. offer to defray all expenses but both the English and Italian committees prefer that these be met by spontaneous contribution from rich and poor alike of the two countries principally concerned...
...regularly with my team, advocated baseball as a British national sport. Said I: 'If I had my time over again, I would probably be a surgeon instead of a baseball player. ... I shall not have done any real good to humanity when I retire. I suppose everybody will have forgotten me in a few years' time...