Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Come, Ralpho, you forget the line...
Bulow, in his first outstanding speech in nine years in the Senate, admitted that the U. S. might well forget neutrality to "track Hitler down and hang him to a sour apple tree." But he warned that this hunt would cost millions of lives, while Hitler might have died a natural death meanwhile...
...Europe the war will bring changes, but no spectacular ones. There will be lowered box-office prices. There will be more rigid censorship. On the other hand, there is no sign that the theatre will be used for propaganda. The tendency is all the other way-toward making people forget the war. Commented a reviewer when The Importance of Being Earnest was revived in a London suburb: "Every one realized the importance of not being earnest...
Winthrop outplayed the Funsters all through the encounter, and was scored on only when Ed Hindle, Kicker, forget that he backed up in using his rocker kick and stepped over the back of the end zone while punting...
...brightest ray of hope is the observation that "as marks get worse, there is a definite progression towards fewer children." It means that the Princeton man--if he has any hope of survival--faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become...