Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk it over. "At least," said Drost, "we can show our sympathy in something more than words." "Right," agreed Farmer Jan Dave, as the campaign got under way. "Our help won't amount to much. But the nice thing is that it brings us all together and we forget our differences...
Cried Judge Silbert: "A dirty trick! .. . I can't read 200 [divorce decrees] a week. I sign whatever is placed before me ... I've got to trust the attaches of this court. . ." The judge soon cooled off and wanted to forget the whole thing. But the local bar associations demanded that Reporter Hammer be punished...
Evil in Purple. What a sell-out audience saw when the curtain finally went up on Salome last week, they would not soon forget. From the pit (which Reiner had ordered lowered to its bottom notch so he and the huge, augmented orchestra could try to keep out of sight), they heard the power, brilliance and detail of Strauss's music as they had seldom heard it before. Onstage, they saw an incandescently evil Salome, flashing in green, purple and red, who commanded the performance from beginning to end. Soprano Welitsch had critics reaching back for comparisons to Olive...
...symptom, not a cause of their illness. With the other 40%, the trouble seems to start with their drinking rather than their personalities. They may be "occupational drinkers" (e.g., bartenders, salesmen, newspaper reporters), who fall into the habit because of their jobs; or "compensatory drinkers," who try to forget the drabness of their lives; or "situational drinkers" who get started because of some emotional crisis...
...showing the boy's cure, the picture also vividly reveals the source of his illness. An oblique lecture to parents who may forget how easily children can develop a sense of rejection by feeling unwanted and unloved, the film ends with this moral: all the clinics and psychiatrists in the nation can only make children "a little better able to take care of themselves ... a little better able to live usefully and generously ... a little better able to care for the children they will have, than their parents were to care for them-lest the generations of those maimed...