Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should run the risk of spoiling the memories of "Pom-Pom" and "Lady Billy". It seems a shame that any actress should play to the bright footlights of musical comedy in the decline of her popularity. The audience is quick to forget and quick to show that it has forgotten...
...western world. Surely materialism itself is not far removed from this science which must swing back to man, which cannot direct itself into the unknown for the pleasure and splendor of the voyage Most successful adventures have had the pawn shop behind them, but with the pawn shop forgotten...
...seems strange that archaeologists, so careful of forgotten dwellings, should be so careless of living customs. Unless vigorous measures are taken, the last theme of adventure stories will disappear, for picturesque superstition threatens to follow romantic conflict in to oblivion. When Sabatini's buccaneering mine is exhausted, romancers of the old school will have nothing to write about...
...around, staring at the manikins, the frocks and me, like morticians at a flower-show. Dieu! These American reporters, with dandruff on their collars! One of them was decent enough, though, to bring my racquets on to Nice. I was so excited in Patou's that I had forgotten them. A human interest story in that, no doubt...
...Christ? Down came the Cardinal's eyebrows into a deep frown, and ire flashed from the darkness. "How dare you make that comparison?" he thundered: "The idea of Christ as King is as old as the Christian world. Empires have passed and others will pass and be forgotten, but the Kingdom of Christ will live...