Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget that the duty of this great institution is, not to follow, but to lead the way in freeing mankind from the shackles of superstition and stupidity. In these days of stress, when the world is struggling in a storm that threatens to destroy it, the sons of Fair Harvard charge you to remember, that if our civilization is to survive, one of the bulwarks of its salvation will be our Alma Mater, if by wise guidance she stands a firm oasis for straight thinking, courage, and high ideals. G. R. Agassiz...
...Goodbye Again) bites a dog, a cataclysm which looses a series of news stories that never, never could have happened. Citizen & Mrs. Hoover leave the White House, but Mrs. Hoover (acidic Helen Broderick) does not depart without telling Dolly Gann what she thinks of her, nor does she forget to strip the place of spoons, portraits, electric toasters and the radio aerial. John D. Rockefeller (Clifton Webb) totters after his son with a knife when he learns the family owns Radio City. Mahatma Gandhi (Mr. Webb in a sheet) plans a vaudeville act with Aimee Semple McPherson, in which...
...soundness nor in the possibility of defending our gold standard. He hopes we will resort to inflation. He is unable to understand the repugnance felt by all social classes in France to the attitude of financial drifting which would lead to inflation. But action is necessary. "Let us not forget that since April, 1932, successive governments have solicited 32,000,000,000 francs in new bond issues. We cannot continue to live like privledged sons on borrowed money...
...Penthouse," Loew's Orpheum--Myrna Loy does not have much to do; that is unfortunate. However, you will see enough of her to make you forget that you are seeing an old situation again...
...could forgive Whitney if we could forget the West Point and the Brown games of last year, but Allie Sherman seems to be a real comer. He is fast, heavy enough and heady enough and ought to make the grade. Barrett? He's a question mark. He's been up in team A during the last week but our memories are strained in trying to remember what he did last year...