Word: forgets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only one respect the five-day week was an unqualified success, from the Soviet point of view. It did help to make people forget Sunday. The new six-day week will be unstaggered, exactly like a capital ist seven-day week, but its holiday will seldom fall on Sunday. Thus Soviet officials, determined atheists, feel that they have smartly evolved the next most irreligious thing to a staggered five-day week...
...hate to see a good doctor concern himself too much with symptoms and forget the disease, and it is just this that many are doing and publicly. The dining hall system is part of an experiment in unity, involving, to be sure, vivisection. The particular dog is not expected to profit greatly. An objection to the dining hall system is pretty much an objection to the purpose of the House Plan, and I daresay that one will be as unavailing as the other--for the time being, rightly so. Nobody, least of all the authorities empowered to act, will...
...Paramount can find plots requiring the services of a hard-boiled; quick spoken character actor, Edward G. Robinson should be walking on air. Gangster, gambler, or, in this case, managing editor of a tabloid, Robinson plays his roles with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter's marriage...
What Do You Know About Sex? What Kind of Girl Will You Marry? "A man should know all he really wishes to know about sex, and then forget it as much as possible. . . . No one needs to be afraid of sex. . . . [Sexual] adjustment of some sort will be necessary. . . . Every couple should learn methods of birth control which will permit them to consummate their love without the necessity of having children...
...used to considerable success in his first work, The Road to Rome. Laid in Alt Wien, this play has to do with the ex-mistress (Lynn Fontanne) of a gaudy, deposed Habsburg (Alfred Lunt, her husband). After the revolution Actress Fontanne had married an eminent psychoanalyst, tried to forget her royal lover. On the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef's birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes place at Frau Lucher's hotel, where once nothing was too good for them. Habsburg and ex-mistress attend. In Frau Lucher many a spectator could catch the likeness...