Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman...
...party. The members all sat around comfortably in Room No. 2604. But it was important. The guests represented the leading oil producers of the world, gathered to come to terms with Russia. Momentous was the fact that for the first time Royal Dutch-Shell was prepared to forget the seizure of its wells in the Caucasus and to talk co-operation with Russia. Royal Dutch-Shell was represented not by swart Sir Henri Deterding, whose White Russian wife is another reason for his hating Red Russia, but by Jean Baptiste August Kessler, 45, whose father founded Royal Dutch, employed...
...question arises as to whether such action could be interpreted as being truly liberal. Most of the officers of the Club feel that this action is not to be construed as being an abandonment of the so-called open, free, and nonpartisan discussion policy. But let us not forget that the National Student League is admittedly sympathetic with, and proposes to defend a great majority of the Communists' social and economic principles. Although it is true that as Mr. Hartshorne has said, the Liberal Club is what its members wish to make it, nevertheless can the members of the Club...
...horsemen clatter over the wooden bridge that bestrides it. A group of boys are sailing boats in a duckpond, and the birds retreat to the far end, haughtily ignoring the invasion of their domain. In such a place even the shoddiest of men take on graciousness, and old ladies forget to prattle of their favorite ailments. Young men reveal the subtle ways of Spring in just that proper tilt of the hat. And, inevitably in May, flaunting their best clothes and their best looks along the lanes, "wymmen waxeth wonder proude." Twilight comes in on silver feet, and the Vagabond...
...husband (John Miljan) who is opportunely snared by another woman (Adrienne Dore). Miss Chatterton is free to suffer a little, agreeably, and say the right, the irreproachable things to her husband's hussy. She gets a divorce and is gallant by transatlantic telephone. Men try to forget her but cannot. She fights against her better instincts but all she has are better instincts. When her ex-husband is badly hurt and his new wife killed in an automobile accident she rushes from George Brent to hold her ex-husband's hand, thus saving him from death...