Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gave you an uneven number. Speedometers register only in tenths of a mile; so you forget the numbers after the decimal point and multiply again by 1,010 for the key number. From there on it's a cinch. All you have to do is to add or subtract 101 as many times as you want and put in those totals for entries. It had to come out in one of those units...
...Conant and Mr. Bingham have caught the end of the rope that their colleagues are afraid to touch. If they succeed in climbing it, other colleges may try to forget the mad insanity of the twenties by discovering that they too want to train their undergraduates for life not for the grandstand. In Cambridge, at any rate, athletics will be put on an athletic basis...
...contrive to have the boy meet the girl in a different way than 799 others have related it. Reduced to elementals, that is our problem." If it did nothing else, Private Worlds would be notable for the solution which it offers to the perplexity which caused Producer Lubitsch to forget his grammar. The boy and the girl meet in an insane asylum where he (Charles Boyer) is the superintendent and she (Claudette Colbert) a diligent psychiatrist...
Typical of the whole show was On Shipboard by Henry Bacon (see cut), showing a group of hardy passengers on a liner of the swinging lamp era trying to forget their interior troubles. Artist Bacon was an excellent draughtsman with an instinctive sense of composition but beyond that his artistic mind did not rise. Yet in the ingenuous 1870's his name meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre...
...frozen northern home Father Dionne, shaken to the core, whimpered: "Mr. Croll told us that God never intended us to have money. He said to go back to my farm and forget about the babies until they were 18, and then I would have $1,000,000. I wonder how far north we would have to go to be free...