Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...point with niceness. True, she takes an exceptionally strong example with which to work. The founders of this country, she points out, were rebels, and many of them fugitives from the iron laws of their homelands. Now that we are free and prosperous and, above all, conventionalized, should we forget what is due those who are attempting to emulate our example? Even a Hindu from India, the play shows, has a moral right to plead for the liberty of that Empire, to educate himself to fight his battle for freedom...
...stop at the mention of the paltry 50,000 who sat in the Bowl of the Stadium? Why forget the twice 50,000 all over the country, in Chicago, St. Louis, San Francisco, Atlanta, who watched the same game over the ticker, or sat in a smoke-fogged room listening to telegraphic announcements, play by play, or who even stood on the curbing in front of a newspaper office and watched an impartial employee shove a little yellow ball along a blackboard, usually indicating the direction in which the real football was not going. Since it is so important...
...coach said recently: "If a victory goes on the records when most desired, don't forget that the men behind the guns in the black jerseys have done their share in silence...
According to "comparative scores" any fool can dope out that because Princeton defeated Harvard 10 to 3 and Yale beat Princeton 13 to 7 Yale is 13 points ahead of Harvard before the opening whistle blows. But we must not forget that half of the Princeton team was wheeled from the hospital to the Bowl. Yet that is about all that can be said to disprove the notion that Yale has the edge...
...himself". Now I ask you, where in the devil do we get the right to pass such a judgement on a chap who, if nothing else, is at least a producer How many hours a day do we actually work--if mastering usless data that we take care to forget as quickly as possible can be called work? And how do most of us spend our leisure time which the working youth ought to consecrate to the noble task of furthering civilization? In proportion, just about the same way as he,--in pool rooms, lounging about town (we have...