Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...help goes in the midst of the enormous difficulties in which we are embroiled, America today is on another planet. How can men be so silly as to forget their friends? Today I sometimes wonder whether Roosevelt may not be the last American President we shall see friendly to us. Who knows but that some day soon we shall see a German-American in the White House...
...forget it," purred the Woolen lawyer, patting Lawyer Carney's shoulder. Sputtered Mr. Carney: "Don't touch me! Take your hands...
...Republican platform must be written, the nominee must be picked, with due consideration for the liberal principles which he for a generation had espoused. Said Candidate Borah last week in Youngstown: "It is a question of the performance of the highest duty offered Republican citizens and you may forget me, if you desire, but not certain men, whose faces are toward the dawn, who believe in progress, who believe in liberalism and who want to return their Republican party to power...
Dubin is heavy, careless, good-natured, writes a lyric on any old scrap of paper. He cheerfully recalls the days when he peddled his verses for $10 to $15 apiece, finally gained recognition with Just a Girl That Men Forget (1923). Hollywood salaries have tempted many of its songwriters to become "country gentlemen," raise blooded roosters, olive trees, avocados. Dubin recently bought an elaborate estate in San Fernando Valley where he still chews tobacco, sucks his corncob pipe...
...right in the old ball game every minute, and don't forget it. Didn't he tell those lousy actors where to get off when they wanted to put on that play all about taxi drivers striking. They had no business bringing things like "Waiting for Lefty" and "Within the Gates" to Boston in the first place, did they...