Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commercial elements. From every standpoint, in fact, the new system seems to have achieved a reasonable degree of success, and after a year of operation its chances for permanent success seems bright. But if it should fail, Yale would do best to sell the Bowl as a curiosity and forget all about football. --Yale Daily News...
...down in a mine, was told it was too dangerous. "If it is dangerous for me," piped Josephine, "why isn't it just as dangerous for the men?" It was to be 29 years before she could do much for coal miners, but she did not forget them. The years between were busy. She took an A.B. at Vassar, an M.A. at Columbia in 1910 with Frances Perkins who became her fast friend. After some welfare work in New York she went back to Colorado, whither her parents had moved in 1906. As Denver's first policewoman...
...purple passages (the description of old Anne Wendel's death is a masterly example of her matter-of-fact style) it gathers a sombre power that rhetoric rarely attains. The Executioner Waits is neither easy nor inspiriting reading, but few readers who persist to the end will soon forget...
Johannes Steel (a pen name for a German exile who headed the German industrial espionage) tells us in his new book, "The Next World War," just published, that all this Aryan-anti-Jewish patter in Germany is a scheme to make the Germans forget their own class warfare--to weld them into one united family. Elsewhere we are informed that the Nordic-Teutonic stage business is to cover the plan to forge northern and central Europe into a self-contained economic confederation. See the Rosenberg plan in Ernst Henri's book "Hitler Over Europe...
...calamity and industrial depression, it is inevitable that representative government give way to a form of administration which is less dilatory, less tolerant, and less compromising. In the crisis of 1932 the people demanded action of the new administration. They were willing to surrender temporarily their historic rights and forget their political philosophy in the interests of prompt, recovery. But two years have passed and the process of strengthening the executive continues. Congress has been surrendering its rights and the rights of other branches of the government to the president. We have in the executive the spectacle of an officer...