Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upturned a policeman and his screaming horse. There never had been so many people gathered anywhere in the nation since Armistice Day. Nobody in town, not even the blind news dealers and the invalids and sick folk in their beds-for the bands brayed ten solid hours-will soon forget New York's NRA parade...
Policies. Engelbert Dollfuss took office determined that Austria's independence shall be preserved. Because Adolf Hitler is determined to end that independence, Dollfuss fights Naziism tooth & nail. Foreign Hitler haters who bury Chancellor Dollfuss with verbal roses are apt to forget that this does not mean that he disapproves of all aspects of Naziism. Firmly as any brownshirt he believes that the Jewish-Socialist Government that ran Vienna for 14 years nearly ruined city and state. He has small use for parliaments. On the other hand as a Christian he has consistently opposed feeding Austrian Nazis their own medicine...
...good fortune to engage the unusual in the domestic staff since, but with a single exception, I've never had one that I for some reason or other was forced to give up, who did not want to return and with always her very gratifying "I shall never forget your kindness" (or words to that effect). It was always very convenient for me to be kind as mine have been invariably considerate of me even under the most trying cir- cumstances and with only normal wages...
Well aware that silk could make a permanent comeback only by regaining its market, spry Gosuke Imai as president of the Japan Filatures Association decided to forget his years, to woo America in the name of silk. With seven fellow ambassadors he landed at San Francisco four weeks ago. All were clad from head to foot in silk-silk suits, silk shirts, silk shorts, silk socks, silk everything save shoes. Their chief object was to persuade U. S. males to wear suits of heavy silk, rlbbed weaves, diagonals, failles (which at present prices could be made...
...effect that. Chloroform, ether, nitrous oxide (laughing gas) can be used effectively for an hour or two, seldom longer. Pain is caused by uterine contractions to expel the baby. Anesthetics and narcotics inhibit those contractions, also affect the baby's respiration. ''Twilight sleep," which made mothers forget their sufferings by means of doses of morphine and scopolamine, is now generally discredited...