Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Normandie--A moderne salon packed with action. The Casa Loma quartette has been creating a sensation. An appetizer, a good dinner and Frankie Wards swing rhythm will make you forget your trouble--and the prices are reasonable...
...sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking like a jealous mistress when anyone else approaches his idol, finds his lot unendurable, weeps, departs. Suffering from confinement and a bad liver, Napoleon is haunted at night by the spectres of his mistakes. He cannot forget, he says, that if he had not attacked so soon at Waterloo, he would have had 12,000 more men. The imperial manners gradually give way to those of a lonely and embittered country squire...
...able to throw a spanner or two into governmental machinery. Provincial leaders of the Heimwehr, meeting to discuss their autumn program, had to decide whether to remain loyal to Starhemberg or transfer their allegiance to Starhemberg's former right hand man, Major Emil Fey. They could not lightly forget that Starhemberg had fed & clothed the Heimwehr from his own pocket until his money had run out, had then continued to feed and clothe them with Mussolini's money. After anxious debate the Heimwehr leaders finally voted for Starhemberg, then with one accord backed him in expelling...
...believer in such tales, the Woodbridge Recorder surprised the complainants by ordering them to cease their blather about Mrs. Czinkota. When the Hungarians continued to shiver and mutter, the authority of the Church had to be invoked. The local Hungarian-speaking priest commanded the women to forget their fears, pacifically explained that Mrs. Czinkota might have been "under hypnotic influence" when observed by Hungarian peeping-Toms...
...Landon is elected next month, Rogers C. Dunn expects to be rocketed to the front rank of U. S. business soothsayers, be assured of a respectful and lucrative following. On the other hand, if Governor Landon is not elected, Mr. Dunn himself agrees that it will be best to "forget the whole thing...