Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the thing was settled, there was a moment of political silence. Hoover was forgotten for a minute while politicians considered the men around him, the new faces, the new commanders. First of all they saw a bland, pink-and-gray Iowa lawyer who was saying very little and looking very cheerful. He was James W. Good, who has managed the Hoover campaign, who may well become the new chairman of the Republican National Committee and who, if he does, is well assured of a good cabinet post if he wants it. Newsmen call him "Sir James" for his fine...
...London has now almost forgotten that it was Herbert Hoover who roused U. S. rubbermen to fight tooth and nail the British rubber restriction scheme which the Empire has now been forced to abandon (TIME, April...
...just possible on clear days to see the spires of Rochester's churches. Frank Gannett's father, Joseph, cleared this hill, built the house where Frank was born, 51 years ago. As a boy of twelve he peddled the Democrat and Chronicle. He has never forgotten his "early attachment...
QUIET CITIES-Joseph Hergesheimer-Knopf ($2.50). With a keen sense for things past, Hergesheimer revives the life of early American cities, immortalizing forgotten airs and manners in a prose of intricate beauty. His leisurely preface regrets the noise and bustle that have superseded simplicity. That done, he reverts to the thrilling intensity of Java Head, and recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman...
...size of colleges. All of them are qualities much to be desired in college life and which few institutions would willingly do without. They are the things the "old grads" remember with the greatest tenderness when the last memory of what they learned in courses has long since been forgotten. But what of the primary function of the college--the education it is intended to provide? Nothing has yet been evidenced to prove that this quality is affected one way or the other by increased enrollments. This is necessarily true, for study is in its essence a task...