Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What an ideal time to get across the message of the Crucifixion to young, impressionable men who, on Easter Sunday morning, would leave our ship on such a dangerous mission! That was an Easter parade I shall never forget, and ex-Chaplain Clark will forever be my hero of the Battle of Okinawa. Perhaps the combat photographers would prefer men kneeling at confession, but men in need of spiritual and physical help will always prefer a John Ruskin Clark...
Bolivians wanted to forget last July's bloody revolution and its lamppost lynchings. In part token, they had picked for next week's presidential elections two ultra-moderate candidates: Enrique Hertzog, 49-year-old surgeon who fought Dictator-President Villarroel and went to jail for it; and short, balding Luis Fernando Guachalla, 47, ex-Minister to Washington and friend of Cordell Hull. Both had helped run the melancholy Chaco War with Paraguay. (Last week, while the two old-line nominees campaigned in the interior, dissident laborites in La Paz put up a third candidate, General Felix Tavera...
...musical makes a strong bid to get Notre Dame's subway alumni on its side. It will interest few others. The book utterly dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy...
...that he had deposited money collected for the Juniper Grove parsonage in a special fund from which he alone could draw. "Gentlemen of the committee," said he, bitterly, "that was a sacred fund and I want you and the world to know that if I ever forget the teachings of my sainted father and want to get money wrongfully I would never start by stealing from the church...
...Woman. Last fortnight members of the Michigan Society of Neurology and Psychiatry gathered to discuss the case, saw an amazing transformation. Neat and demure, the patient answered the psychiatrists' questions politely. She remembered her lurid past, but wanted to forget it. Said she: "I want to go home and lead a normal life." The hospital's report: "The patient is quite friendly, cooperative, seriously interested in the future, somewhat lacking in initiative but adequately responsive when approached. . . . Previous aggressive sexuality has apparently vanished...