Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tattle Tales (Barbara Stanwyck & Frank Fay, producers). Eastern theatre-goers are likely to forget that the West Coast, too, has its legitimate theatre. A sample of it is Tattle Tales which, having toured the Pacific slope and then made its way toward the Appalachians by easy stages, finally arrived on Broadway. Its reception was not encouraging to Frank Fay, oldtime vaudeville master of ceremonies, and his cinematically successful wife, Barbara Stanwyck...
...said, college is only practice. "I'd try to forget about it, if I were you," I think he said, "and look ahead toward the years that really count." I can't remember much more, but I think that when we came out of Appleton Chapel the sun was shining...
...citizens are apt to forget that even at the end of the Revolutionary War nearly one-third of the population of the 13 States was still loyal to King & Country and, despite the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, suffered a white pogrom at the hands of their exultant Whig neighbors. On May 11, 1783, following arrangements between British General Carleton in New-York and the Governor of Nova Scotia, the "Spring Fleet" carrying refugees from New York dropped anchor at the mouth of the St. John River. Kept aboard their ships by high seas and driving rain, they...
...Rudolph Valentino is still green in Hollywood. In The Sheik (1921) he coined a U. S. epithet and a mint of money for Paramount. The Barbarian is more than a belated imitation; like some of the songs which Jamil sings it is a plaintive serenade, begging audiences not to forget an old favorite. Most inevitable shot: Myrna Loy, dreamily indignant, slicing Novarro's cheek with a camel whip...
...every weekend. Interviewed by a Yale Newsman, said he: "We are now faced by the grave problem of extensive lack of manners in regard to liquor, and I dread the approach of beer for that reason. I resent unmannerly actions resulting from liquor, and I can neither forgive nor forget them. . . . Drinking is an art, and while in France it may be productive of good conversation, in Germany of music, and in England of social living, here it makes fools out of gentlemen. . . . We have arrived at a point where a decided stand should be taken, not by authorities...