Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pianist Casadesus grimly returned. The audience roared with applause. He sat down, tore through Chopin and Ravel, wrestled till the last encore with the relief piano, which, propped up on a roller frame, struggled to roll out of his reach. Local critics were sure that St. Louis would never forget Casadesus, that Casadesus would never forget St. Louis...
That color will not come into its own until producers can forget about it has been the chief lesson of every colored film to date. Selznick International may well be the first company to become familiar enough with this medium to treat it with proper carelessness. Unhurried by such outside spurs as the change in theatre equipment that transformed sound overnight from a pipe dream to a necessity, other producers are still wary of color as an expensive and perhaps unhealthy precedent. Selznick International, after a board meeting in which Backer John Hay ("Jock") Whitney was re-elected chairman, Producer...
...went under, its officials prepared the receivership petition, took it to the home of a Federal judge in Easton, Pa., secured appointment of themselves as receivers. The fallen company was apparently in efficient hands and most Philadelphians gradually forgot about its troubles. Among those who did not forget were the thousands of investors, nearly one-half of them women, who had lost a good part of their savings...
...path of adjustment, and certain concessions that the South American countries will have to make. Among these are the strong commercial ties existing between them and England and Japan, also, but to a lesser extent, Germany and France. On the political side, it would not do to forget the number of Latin American countries which have presidents in name but dictators in point of fact, who might well be sympathetically disposed towards similar, dictator-controlled nations. And, lastly, it would be inexcusable to neglect potent racial minorities in several of the South American countries, whose heritage might lead them...
...relying on alms for life, bread and medical care, the idea of social insurance loomed ever higher as a vital need when the time should present itself for the country's reorganization. Though the proverbial horse had fled, it seemed better to lock the door once again than to forget entirely and to move on in willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large, too radical, and it was argued that every cent available was needed for more urgent matters. Wages and profits together were low and any deductions for social insurance would have gone hard. Under these conditions...