Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They did the best they could but the material wasn't there. . . . I will always remember every fellow who played on the 1934 Knox team as hard workers. . . . Nine of the regulars didn't even have any high-school football experience. . . . I'll never forget the day one of our little fellows, a quarterback, came around with a new scoring play. . . . A little later, during practice, he was going hellity hoot. . . . As he dashed down the field, he stepped into a water bucket...
...rehearsal one day last week Philadelphia Orchestramen wondered if Leopold Stokowski were ill. His mood was strangely nostalgic. Suddenly he interrupted the players, thanked them for helping him forget his many worldly troubles. That afternoon the meeting of the orchestra board was no scrappier than usual and directors went home with easy minds. But next morning when they picked up their newspapers, they read that Leopold Stokowski had resigned as conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...lawyer better acquainted with welfare work than with music. The end of Stokowski's statement was suitably regretful: "I am sad at the thought that I must now leave the Orchestra that I have worked so hard to help build up. ... I wish to pass over in silence and forget our deep-lying differences of opinion and remember "only the beauty and inspiration of the music we have made. I write this with pain in my heart...
...best performance and plays his role convincingly. Jane Cowl muddled her lines at times, but is quite successful as the philanthropic lady of leisure. Thurston Hall, who bears a close resemblance to Herbert Heover is excellent at all times, and particularly in the scene in which he drinks to forget that seen his wealth will be confiscated by the damn Communists Ben Smith, as Rand Fliridge, is awkard as a lever, and seems ill at case in the role Jose Ruben is splendid...
...Baron's son recovered, married Suzy in a desperate attempt to forget the spying vampire. Through Suzy's efforts Mata Hari was arrested, convicted; her husband was given the tasty job of commanding the firing squad. Soon after, he went off to the front, was glad to be killed. Suzy, by now indistinguishable from a lady of the ancient regime, married another French nobleman. But this one was bald, had no yearning for vampires...