Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Justice Dike told Lena Burlatt that in Bedford Reformatory, well-run though it is, "there are some vicious women, some frightfully vicious women." He advised her to forget anything she had learned there. . . . Then he sent her home with the mother who had committed her at 16 for "staying out late...
Reducing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Critics who lament each slapstick comedy Marie Dressier makes as a deterioration of her art, wistfully recalling her work in Anna Christie and Let Us Be Gay, apparently forget that in the two latter plays Miss Dressier had bit-parts and that making a bit-part stand out is easy and not always justifiable. In Reducing, as in her other full-length roles, Miss Dressier works hard and with some skill, but the results are not memorable. She comes from the country as the permanent guest of her sister. Polly Moran, who has grown rich running...
...might be called definitely "Anti-German". Most of us I believe felt it rather to be a step in the other direction. For us it seemed more "Anti-War" than anything else. Perhaps also the obvious Americanism of the cast and the international handling of the plot made us forget that the story dealt with German soldiers, in German uniforms, singing occasionally German songs, with what passed as a German setting. For us then it was just "The Horrors of War" without any conscious accent on the nationality of the participators...
...Virtue of Idleness." Irishman George William Russell ("AE") declared in Manhattan: "I've a complaint against he U. S. It arises out of Longfellow's 'Psalm of Life.' That poem is drilled into every child. They never forget . . . the line 'let us then be up and doing' and America has been 'up and doing' ever since. That is the cause of all your economic problems. You are working people so hard that you have, naturally, overproduction. You should cultivate the adorable virtue of idleness...
because he knew only these English phrases: "How do you do? I love you. Forgive me. Forget me. Ham & eggs, please...