Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Few countries envy our moral reputation. Granted it is unjust but who is to blame? Out here the cinema is the popular entertainment for the evening. Most of them show American pictures. Pictures that we Americans see and soon forget. Pictures from which our foreign friends form their conception of the average American life. The ordinary picture fan out here sees our fair America-not once, but some fifty or sixty times each year-as a place where every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock...
...scorched though she was, Mrs. Dayton joined Ship's Nurse Dorothy Mannix in treating the wounded, many of whom died in her arms from lung burns or ghastly body burns. Vice President McNeil said to Mrs. Dayton: "You are the heroine of this disaster. We will never forget what you have done. You will hear from us later...
What Mr. Schwab forgot, until Mr. Eaton's bright lawyers reminded him, was something which few men could forget...
...terrible rage, seeing her blood about to be balked of the Throne a second time, and again by a woman of the people, ambitious Isabella ordered Albrecht to take a cruise to South America "to forget."* With crafty meekness, Son Albrecht said he would obey his compelling, imperial mother. He duly set out for South America as she commanded, but stopped off for a day in Belgium to ruin her life work...
...Marie of Rumania once sent her Carol (then Crown prince) around the world to forget a wench. But as soon as he got home he picked her tip again, then forgot her and six years later picked another...