Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more at stake politically than the Mayor, demonstrated his complete command of the situation. Mayor Walker had brought along as his counsel blue-eyed, white-haired John J. Curtin, Brooklyn attorney, close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. "Let's throw away the law books. Let's forget there ever was a written law. Let's tackle this from a human fair-minded standpoint," exclaimed Counsel Curtin, and proceeded immediately to try to tangle the Walker defense in a mass of legal technicalities. What Counsel Curtin was vainly driving at was the right to cross-examine...
...Senator Borah importantly put forth a similar idea fortnight ago at Minneapolis. Last April Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed: "Let us say to the nations of Europe who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years and will write off as paid each year 25% of the gross value of American products which they buy from...
...last week, on a round of personal calls upon the operating managers of all steamship lines in New York Harbor. Fun was fun. said they, but pilots were pilots. They were really tired now of bringing back from Sandy Hook those convivial or sentimental pier visitors who "forget" to leave the ship before she pulls out. or who devilishly say. "Let's stay aboard and get off with the pilot." Hereafter, said the pilots, let all those who overstay after "All ashore that's going ashore." be left on board, charged fare to the ship's destination...
Broadway knew "Flo" Ziegfeld for his temperament, his lavishness, his lack of humor, his publicity-madness. Broadway liked him nonetheless. Since the 1890's his short figure, his broad, pink face, thick nose and sharp eyes had been familiar to theatregoers. But he never let the public forget that his father had founded the Chicago Musical College, that his second job ?his first was with Buffalo Bill's show? was that of manager of the college. In 1892 he went to Europe to get orchestras for the Chicago World's Fair. On their failing, he went to New York...
Juno Marin, twice married, has landed in the sanitarium after running the gamut of a gay society in which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough...