Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Roosevelt did not forget his promise to Catherine Murphy. He arranged for her to start for Warm Springs, Ga. There she was to meet again her friend and benefactor, for the President had arrived at Warm Springs for his annual Thanksgiving fortnight of rest and treatment...
...written from Manhattan. "It is so cheering to hear your voice over the telephone, that I always feel better after talking to you. Last August after a severe illness . . . you suggested that I try remaining away from my desk for a few weeks and, as far as possible, forget the Treasury. . . . Unfortunately I am not exactly built that way. ... I have tried faithfully to carry out your suggestions, but it has been a failure. ... I feel that I must tender my resignation and seek complete rest and a change of climate. My physician has told me that unless...
...right honorable member whose unfailing courtesy has won the unstinted admiration of the whole House. I hope the House will acquit me of any malicious intent, and in offering my apology to the right honorable member himself, I hope he will find it possible to forgive, if not to forget...
...Miller's Gowns by Roberta, score by Jerome Kern; Max Gordon, producer) is another gallant try at making a handsome, funny and affecting play with music and dancing, girls and dresses. Plot: a U. S. college boy loses his girl because she thinks he is "small-town." To forget her, he visits his Aunt Minnie (Fay Templeton) who is Roberta, a famed Paris dressmaker. Planning to will her establishment to her assistant, a onetime Russian princess (Tamara), Aunt Minnie dies without signing the will, thus forcing her nephew-heir to turn dressmaker. The princess and the college...
...humanities the present spectacle is most painful. Scientific study is in a different class and much of this comment is not applicable to it. Rather, the penetration of science into humanistic studies is the danger. Whatever organization these departments may develop, they must forget their exclusive allegiance to accomplished facts, and to the field within the field within the field. It has been supposed that, but the very nature of the men teaching graduate subjects, these reforms cannot be possible, but it is not so much in persons that the academic anemia has its source, as in a system which...