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Word: forgetting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is barely enough body to the play to make the situation created ring entirely true, but this is easily over-looked as are certain confusions arising from the legal turn which is taken in the final act. The constant interplay of the frivolous with the tragic, makes one forget the obvious flaws as the audience is carried from the tittering stage to one of extreme tension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/3/1928 | See Source »

...supplies 10 days provisions for 100,000 people, etc. All to be distributed to the poor devils, victims of the tremendous hurricane in Porto Rico. I can imagine the anxiety of those people expecting that colossal help. It is a donation to that country that my compatriots will never forget. I can see their mouths water - literally speaking, I've been hungry - when they read in big head lines that it was going to be distributed to apease their hunger and calm their anxiety. Now you think of their embarrassment when going to ask for a little food they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...moving part of the night, but a mother will forget her child and water will run uphill before a Scotsman will be unable to recognize that form and face. I went on one knee to her and she extended her pretty hands. I called her my liege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Seeing is Believing" | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Most startling of all are his battle paintings, which were published last week amid explosive praise.* During the World War he was a Lieutenant of Marines. He did not forget horrible beauties compounded of corpses spitted on barbed wire, the atrocious shine of bayonets, the bright agony of lacerated flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vexed Venable | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...seems to me that the ruling which requires the signing of this agreement is basically poor. Undoubtedly my experience is not unusual, as freshmen, we sign so many agreements that we are more than likely to forget details of this sort before another year has come around. When we sign up for the "Crimson," we are not liable for four year's subscriptions. Why are not the two cases parallel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Corruption | 10/17/1928 | See Source »

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