Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief money without consulting Congress, now declared it was up to Congress to finish them. But the President had already tossed $5,500,000 over the Maine dam, sunk $5,400,000 in the Florida ditch, and well he knew that Republican campaigners would not let U. S. voters forget his headlong largess...
...have for 13 years been murmuring to the bones of Texas' dead heroes that when this great state, a land of great men who will ever do great things, should become 100 years old, the nation would be treated to a memorial celebration that it would not soon forget. True to that promise, up and down the nation for weeks, with a white horse called Texas and his son Jim Boy, 6, the present Governor of Texas, "Jaunty Jimmy" Allred has been traveling as advance agent of the Texas Centennial which is to be, he declares, "bold enough...
Calmly choosing to forget the form letter sent to all Massachusetts judges requiring them to submit a report of their age and the state of their health, Governor Curley has explained himself out of one of the most embarrassing situations that even he has ever managed to blunder into. In a statement that is an insult to the intelligence of any but a Curley-appointed, democratic judge, the buffoon of Beacon Hill staunchly avowed that his intentions behind the proposed ouster of all judges over seventy were inspired by an utterly altruistic desire to relieve poor old men "with failing...
...Actually, if one ever showed up, he would be quite refreshing because of the rarity. Finally, Bette turns out to be an impostor. All this conduces to the happiness of the people in the show, but scarcely to that of the people watching it, who become so bored they forget to be surprised...
...stage by Blanche Bates, in the silent cinema by Theda Bara (1916) and Priscilla Dean (1922). The current version, costly, handsome and overlong, offers a concession to modernity: Gregory Ratoff, as a Legionnaire, says with a thick Yiddish accent: "We're all supposed to be trying to forget something, but there's so much noise around here I can't remember what it is I'm supposed to forget." More at home in Under Two Flags are Ronald Colman, who wore a kepi and baggy pants in Beau Geste ; Victor McLaglen, who has played many...