Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such thing is Gustave Sap, Belgian scholar, politician, one of the leaders of the Catholic Party and onetime Minister of Finance (1934). But though Scholar Sap has been professor of economics at Louvain University, Politician Sap is not a man to forget a grudge. Independently wealthy, Gustave Sap has been frequently named the financial backer of Rexist Leon Degrelle, Belgian Fascist leader who was soundly trounced at the polls by black-haired, red-mustached Premier Paul van Zeeland five months ago (TIME. April...
...Almost perfect mechanically. How stupid of me to forget. Now it all comes back. Harvard, of course. I used to teach there. Well, what's the Crimson...
...Grange meetings, bee inspections, potato demonstrations. He has been writing his friendly column of anecdotes since the death in 1924 of Obediah Crouthamel (real name: Solomon DeLong), to whose column he was a contributor. Pumpernickle Bill's slogan is: "Fergess net, un schreib alsa mohl" (Don't forget to write sometime). A feature of his column is: "Glawwas Odder Net, Ow'r" (Believe It or Not). Sample...
...Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...
...have freed, not all have lived to praise him. Liebowitz sent "Mad Dog" Coll back into the streets. Brother gangsters wiped him out within a week. Convict Max Becker, missing the electric chair for the prison guard's murder, went back to face prison guards who did not forget. The electric chair burns men. Solitary confinement burns minds. Max Becker has for some years been in the Dannemora madhouse...