Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...though they seldom write a line aid vastly in the dissemination of Harvard football news, can scarcely be forgotten. Sitting, nominally at least, at the top of the hierarchy of the H.A.A. publicity department, is S. deJ. Osborne '26, while in college manager of both the football and track team. A step below him stand George Baker '25 and A.M. Blackburn '28, acting publicity direc...
There is in process at the present time one of the most interesting experiments ever attempted in historical writings. Mark Sullivan has once more come forth with a volume which psycho-analyzes in terms of newspaper headlines, once current fads and fancies, forgotten manias, previous eras of the United States. He has written not exactly a history but rather the evolution of a popular mentality. Having begun this peculiar method of examination in "The Turn-Of-A-Century" the first part of that work called in entirely "Our Times", he continues it in the second part, "America Finding Herself...
...more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among the mushroom intelligentsia at whom their weapons are pointed; but the admiration is so open-mouthed and so self-conscious that the implied self-criticism is forgotten. Two highly articulate, intelligent, bellicose writers cannot help being in a measure valuable. But it would be difficult to prove that Messrs. Mencken & Nathan, in their tremendous excitement, have done very much more than amuse the few and increase the already overwhelming conceit of the many...
...speak of him almost with reverence, where an invitation to his studio make its bearer glad, he was unknown. In the white cottage in Hempstead he painted polo ponies and portraits of their owners brilliantly, surely, with a perfection born of complete knowledge. Last week art critics who had forgotten Maler Ludwig Koch, painter of horses, were shamed by able polo expert for the New York World, Peter Vischer.* Expert Vischer listened to the old artist speaking of the days, long before the War, when he had lived in Vienna, ridden through misted bridle paths with noblemen in red coats...
Both nations appear to have forgotten the recent turmoil, for Minister Bogomolov is reported to have assured President Moscicki that Russia is ready to conclude a treaty guaranteeing peace between the two countries...