Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gives, and boots are splashed with brown. The sun is shining and great clouds trundle away or crumble in the blue like fallen ramparts. A housewife wipes her red hands upon an apron and smiles down at the first bewildering crocus. Horses in the shafts steam and try to forget their winter coats. Old gentlemen on Marl bore Street hang up their Chesterfields and derbies. Little boys go shouting into a tumbled house and little girls wear blue...
Leipzig sent the little man to Elba while a Congress sought to forget the last twenty five years at Vienna. And then the Hundred Days, to end at last when Old Blucher set his men to stabbing the Old Guard under the late June starlight. Not quite ended it is true, for six years later on a far isle in the sea a great storm of wind and rain blew up. And whilst it raged the Emperor died murmuring "France, Armee, Tete d'armee", and perhaps, as some say, "Josephine...
...star is a quality difficult to define except by its effect upon an audience. There is something profoundly inconsequential about his appearance, something gravely and bitterly unimportant about his bearing which stamps his personality with an almost classic insignificance. When you have seen him once you can always forget him; it is this which has made him a memorable comedian...
...talk," is well applied to him. Ernest Cossart is excellent as Colonel Tallboys; we wish, with him, to "bash." The Elderly Lady over the head, then extending to her our apologies, but never our regrets, so exasperatingly well has Minna Phillips caught her tone. Nor must we forget Leo G. Carroll as Private Meek, and the others who declaimed G. B. S.'s dogma in superb fashion...
...introduced by Congressman Henry Bascom Steagall of Alabama, chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee. In the Senate an identical measure was sponsored by Virginia's old, peppery Phi-Beta-Kappa-Dangling Carter Glass. Senator Glass never lets the world forget that he acted as "patron and floor manager" (his own words for the original Federal Reserve Act when it passed the House 19 years ago), that he still considers it very much his own legislative child. The Glass-Steagall bill was born at the White House. Behind it loomed the shadowy outline of a printing press whirling off millions...