Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...public which had nearly forgotten the Wood who captured Geronimo, the Wood who cleaned up Cuba, the Wood who hobnobbed with kings and kaisers, saw him depart for the Philippines with the rank of Governor General. Babbitts, great and small, gave but a slangy moment's pity to the man who had "missed out." For so it seemed. In the Philippines no glory could be gained...
...told you so," at every well-known incident. If ever there was a man who likes to get back to the root of things, Mr. Maltby has shown himself to be such when looked upon in the light of the jokes resurrected from their honored, and, I had hoped, forgotten graves...
...forest to die. Florence Easton was Dulcinea, conscientiously seductive; Giuseppe de Luca, the faithful portly Sancho, himself a little mad. The opera, critics agreed, to be of little consequence, save for Massenet's unfailing craftsmanship; endowed with little real beauty, with many melodic bromides?all of which were forgotten in the magnificent impersonation of Chaliapin, one well worth a place beside his Mephistopheles, his Boris...
LOLLY WILLOWES, OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN?Sylvia Townsend Warner?Viking Press ($2). Lolly Willowes, a forgotten maiden, was nearly 50 before she understood the impulses long stirring beneath her life-routine among normal, well- to-do British relatives?impulses that had set her to reading in dusty books about werewolves and spells; to searching for potent, hidden herbs on solitary walks; and to quaint medicinal brewings and distillations in private...
Last year Harvard was victimized by a certain Mr. Dunton, advertised as a rising star of the new school, whose "Wild Asses" would already be4 forgotten if it were not selling for fifty cents in bookstores on the Square. And now Cornell Woolrich, a Columbia undergraduate, has written of Broadway's night life as typified by her "gigolos" and "gigolettes." Just what Mr. Woolrich Knows about Broadway's night life it id difficult to determine. He says so very little that has not been said before, and very much more expressively in "the Great white Way." "Flaming Passions" and other...