Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brash female hitchhiker; a Mexican peasant apologizing for the Ford which contains his wife, children, chicken coop and guitar. Aline MacMahon ably portrays the proprietress, a calm, ugly, unhappy woman gloomily trying to conceal her emotion when brought face to face with a man she is trying to forget. Ann Dvorak plays her young sister, infatuated with a poolroom loafer in the nearest village. What prevents Heat Lightning from being a first rate picture is that it lacks neatness of design. Good shot: the gas-station and the road beyond illuminated by a flash of heat lightning - which serves...
...abandoned wedding-day to start a world-junket with three former schoolmates. By last week he had arrived in Shanghai, where he spent most of his time staring moodily out of the window in his room. Badgered by reporters young Astor blurted out that he was "trying to forget," added: "I don't like to discuss it. What more can I say?" Left alone, he turned again to the window...
...airs of spring cooled and freshened by melting snows of New Hampshire, troubled with the sound of nesting birds and sweetened with fragrance from bursting buds and flowing maple sap come to disturb the student at his desk, to stir him to forget book, to promulgate questionnaires if he is learned, to do other things if he is not, it is time for a movie like the Mystery of Mr. X. It combines the detective thriller which diverts the gray board scholar, with the bill-and-coo whimsy comedy so appropriate to our age, to this season. It is smoothly...
Having finished his new book, an introduction tot he Jews entitled "How Odd of God", Lewis Browne has left the proof reading to his publishers and gone off to the South Seas to forget all about the "Jewish problem". I want to go some place", he writes, "Where no one wears brown shirts, or silver ones, or indeed any shirts at all." He expects to spend several weeks cruising in Polynesia, and will return in time to keep a series of lecture engagements in the last of April...
...strings of generous graduates. It should be a matter of great interest and pride as well to the students who are very much a part of the oldest college in the country. With a new constitution, which it is hoped will obviate the former tendency of the organization to forget its original aim of perpetuating the glories of Harvard's past by concentrating on the chores of members of social standing, the society is in a position to be a major factor not only in reviving respect for tradition among the undergraduates, but also in promoting their enthusiastic participation...