Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They are organized into the Minnesota Editorial Association, generally considered to be the strongest of the State newspaper associations. . . . Minnesota editors are smart enough to forget political differences and unite themselves into this co-operative body for the benefit of the newspaper business. The association for years has had a full-time paid secretary and field manager, maintains an office in Minneapolis, furnishes members engravings at cost, farms out jobs that members cannot handle in their own plants, last year purchased some $16,000 worth of merchandise for them, solicited and distributed $14,000 worth of advertising for them, furnished...
Swimmer: . . . Now I'm here seeing all these nice paintings of your father and your mother and your ancestors, I quite forget all about the Olympics. Why, Your Royal Highness, you ought to go into the movies. You have an ideal face for pictures...
...intellectual climate of the U. S. during the period. Thus the Newsreel that follows a chapter telling of Margo Dowling's miserable marriage includes a song that was popular at the moment, headline reference to topics that were then being discussed : . . . the kind of a girl that men forget...
...killed the cow that represented all their wealth. Then when the Valley people were cooped up in the stockade at Little Stone Arabia, Lana's first child was born dead. She turned against her husband, lived in dread of the future, while he became embittered, sullen, tried to forget his lost aspirations by exhausting himself hunting in the woods. They rented a one-room shack in German Flats, became the hired hands of a kindly, harsh-voiced old widow, until Gilbert was called out with the militia for an attack on the British near Fort Stanwix. In the ambush...
Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell spent half an hour skipping stones at Edenton, N. C., remarked: "If a fellow could do this every day, he could soon forget Frank Kent and Dave Lawrence...