Word: forgottenness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...travel far in Europe to see how the penalty of the war has fallen upon the children. It has destroyed not only beautiful villages and historic buildings; but it has destroyed childhood--that is, the joys to which children are entitled. I have seen places where the children have forgotten how to play; they had to be taught all over again how to be children. I have seen thousands and thousands of children in France, and very many of them under five years of age did not know what Christmas was. The war did not let them learn...
Outchariesing. Dickens but half-forgotten...
...taken books from these libraries for the purpose of doing some special outside assigned or tutorial work, but instead of playing the game fairly and letting others have access to the book they were using, they have selfishly "hogged" that book for their own use, and in some cases forgotten to return it when they had finished. The spirit that prompted such action was nothing more nor less than selfishness and carelessness, but the result was the same as if the man had deliberately committed an act of theft...
...words--Christmas vacation--the University suddenly becomes a place of desolation. The Yard is a deserted village of silent houses, without even the rude clanging of the ever-zealous bell in old Harvard to break in upon its unnatural quiet. Even the gay rendezvous round the Square are forgotten for other parts. It is with light hearts that we turn from the nine o'clocks of this world to that other world of holiday cheer that comes only with Christmas. To its many friends, especially to those who are unable to return to distant homes, the CRIMSON extends its best...
...roasting" the critics of whom he has always had small opinion. It was he who once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play the more for the fact that its author neither fears nor forgets them...