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Word: forgetfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advice to the Freshmen with which to start their college career. At the beginning of his talk, Neilson remarked that some day President Conant will realize that what is said to the Freshmen on their first night at college doesn't matter in the least for they will promptly forget...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant, Sperry, Neilson in Role of Hosts As Class of 1941 Gets Official Welcome | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...clock: They've started.... Coming pretty slowly at first--who's going to be the first out? Here he is--Wesley Harrison Lowell, Jr. That red-haired, tough-looking baby almost beat him to it. Lowell was in such a rush he forget the name of his city on his Phillips Brooks card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pandemonium Reigns in Memorial as 1941 Runs Gauntlet of Registration | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...feeling, will, if the Republican party is strong enough, be reflected in the 1938 Congressional elections. "The Roosevelt strategy," he said, "at the present time, is to do absolutely nothing about the matter, and concentrate on spectacular subjects like foreign affairs, in the hope that the public will forget about the matter. This is the President's policy despite the fact that his closest advisors have urged him to demand Black's resignation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appointment of Black Puts Roosevelt In "Hot Spot" Politically, Says Editor | 9/24/1937 | See Source »

...their feet every time he takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained Filipino officers to dine. When their U. S. training caused them to forget their native manners so far as to fail to light President Quezon's after-dinner smoke, he decided to go to the U. S. without military escort. By last week, all Manila knew that President Quezon was really prepared to consider Commissioner McNutt as Boss. On the occasion of his homecoming call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace on the Pasig | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris); Topper (Roland Young, Gary Grant, Constance Bennett); Saratoga (Jean Harlow, Clark Gable); The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway) ; Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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