Word: forgetfulness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
These Mrs. Gummidges hold, all seriously and quite incontrovertibly, that the Savoy Operas are silly, which is true enough; that George White has lovelier ladies in his chorus than the Gilbertians, and more effective stage properties, solid pudding arguments not to be denied. But they forget to add, that, whatever the Roman splendors of George White may be, the Savoy Operas have an evasive, indefinable, yet robust charm...
...Robinson washing his hands of the messes in "Five Star Final" cannot but believe that a good actor is being wasted on bad material. Miss Zita Johann, the Quita of the picture who abandons her husband Mike for his first mate, might be an excellent actress if she would forget the Garbeled virgin of drama...
...late William Bolitho once wrote: "In the luxurious hand dealt England by Fate . . . the longest suit is the Jew. . . . Do not forget . . . Marcus Samuel, who gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever...
Foreign debt principal now goes to public debt retirement, interest to general operating expenses of the Government. Last April Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed: "Let us say to the nations who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years and will write off as paid each year 25% of the gross value of American products which they buy from...
...stirred up a wasp's nest of indignation. But Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe four years ago (TIME, Sept. 24, 1928). They gathered in clusters, looking southeast. A few boarded up their...