Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...
...mass electorate immediately recognizes. In the East the experiments, including the house plan, at the great universities, have held the spotlight of public attention. But the work of the smaller colleges which, as President Lowell says of Haverford, have been beacon lights on the road, sometimes go unnoticed. We forget that Harvard and Yale and Princeton made their national fame and established their enduring glory when they were no larger than Haverford today...
Warned M. Doumergue: "France must be on her guard, particularly because of a brusque event! . . . The very history of the country where that event occurred contains precedents full of teachings which it would be dangerous for us to forget. I do not wish to dramatize anything, but we must put things in their right proportions, for thus it is that we guard against the other surprises and dangers which they may bring...
...Austro-German agreement was a surprise to me," began M. Briand, smarter than Dr. Benes. "But we must place such events according to their proper proportion. The prestige of France is above such incidents! But we should not forget that Germany's manner of acting was not good...
...bench, he begins to crack. Harried by the King's Counsel, who patiently sets his trap and then springs it with heroic crescendo, Actor Atwill breaks down, screams: "I did it! I did it! I did it!" This part of the play is done so well that spectators almost forget that Mr. Atwill still has three scenes left in which to prove himself innocent. Kay Strozzi (real name Strotz, sister of President Sidney Strotz of Chicago Stadium Corp.) is adequately irritating as the murdered adventuress...