Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member houses then open. Meanwhile from the offices of nonLeague producers and "outlaw" brokers issued rumblings of war. ''Blacklist . . . conspiracy!" hissed Legshowman George White (Flying High). "Half-baked . . . childish!" snorted Producer Herman Shumlin (The Last Mile). A League executive tried to conciliate Mr. White: "Forget it, old-timer . . . and help us clean up this rotten situation which has made ticket distribution a 'racket.' " Producer White was adamant. He threatened to start a move among producers that would finish the League, namely, to get all tickets back where they belonged-in box offices. To Attorney General Hamilton...
...Bonus. He did not . . . (profanity deleted). He voted FOR the bonus, not once as some white-livered Senate sisters did, but TWICE ... to ride over President Coolidge's veto. That bonus vote of his is going to help re-elect him this year and don't you forget it! He's a good guy, even if the photo of him you used don't look...
...Marion to dedicate the Memorial to his old chief. The Hoover Administration is a year and more gone; and yet the Memorial at Marion awaits its official honors. Messrs. Hoover, Coolidge. Hughes and Mellon never disowned Harding while he was alive. Why this strange effort to ignore and forget him, now he is dead...
...official authorization whatever, they insisted that His Majesty was going to use the dedication of India House as an opportunity to make the speech of his life. Is not the Indian Empire on a brink? They recalled the occasion in 1921 when at Belfast the Royal appeal "Forgive and forget!" did much to end the Irish War. They prophesied that at India House the Emperor of India would pour such words into the Royal microphone as might well solve the Indian Situation...
...Buyers. So long and so spectacularly has Sir Joseph Duveen, baronet, been in the public prints* that many people forget the existence of his brothers four- Ernest, Edward, Benjamin, Charles. Charles Duveen left the firm of Duveen Bros, years ago to start a New York furniture shop of his own under the name of Charles of London. Sir Joseph's son-in-law, Armand Lowengard manages the Paris branch. But though Ernest, Edward and Benjamin are partners in the company, actively engaged in its traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers...