Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the winter I happened to break one leg, with its adjacent rungs, of a black-and-gold chair of the type supplied to all dormitory rooms. I took the broken chair to the Janitor's Office, and forget about the matter until my term bill appeared with a charge for $5.68. I protested this unreasonable amount to the Bursar's Office, and received the following itemization: Carpenter stock, I left arm (it was actually a leg, but no matter)… $.60, I front rung $.07 (granted), I side rung $.07 (granted); Carpenter labor $3.00 (with the proper tools...
...strangely enough, the music remains fresh and interesting. Now and then a good tone makes you forget the creaky old plot. The pleasant old waltz, "My Hero," comes untarnished. And so, though there is no wit left in "The Chocolate Soldier," there is song, song that this reviewer would rather have rendered instrumentally as Biergartenmusik wafting blithely across the Pilsener foam...
...actors in Hollywood today who, in our estimation, earns all he gets. We have liked him ever since he stood behind a chair in "Wings", just before going off to war, and said "Yes, mother," to a series of questions whose purport was "Now you won't forget to change your socks when you get your feet wet, will you?" He is refreshingly masculine without being a blatant personality boy. He creates an impression of hard-fisted strength coupled to the right amount of feeling without resorting to the Clark Gable sneer or the Buddy Rogers grin. "Sky Bride...
...Salto Mortale" and Jim takes Robby's job with the lever. When Marina and Robby fall in love, it complicates the act. Swinging on their high platform, they are sure that Jim, suspecting that he has lost his wife as well as his job, will one night forget to pull the lever. Presently he does forget...
...make him a priest. Soon after this she dies; and Rochus feels obliged to redeem her pledge. Perplexed and without faith, he journeys to Rome. He feels there the overpowering force of the Catholic Church to the extent of pledging his life to her service, though he can never forget his love. Later, he is sent back to the hamlet that was his home and is expected to look upon the girl he was to marry with the saber eyes of a priest and not with the eyes of a lover...