Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story is one of back-stage life in which a capable burlesque performs finally gets a break and is starred in the Ziegfield Follies. Here he is a big success until he learns that his wife, whom he had forgotten, is going to divorce him. He then leaves the show and is called a but--but everything comes out alright...
...Pittsburgh End Joe Donchess lay prone on Waynesburg's goal line, he lifted his arms as if by accident and found between them a pass that was soon forgotten in his team's scarcely hindered scoring. Pittsburgh 53, Waynesburg...
...boredom until one night when he finds her with one of her other friends he goes temporarily crazy and strangles her. The irony of this denouement is softened by having the woman recover, the young lover turn back to his former fiancée and the career he had forgotten, but in spite of its compromises The Careless Age remains a better picture than most. Best shot: nerve-treatment in a hotel...
...prepared for Dartmouth freshmen. Said he, in the convocation ad dress: "College officers are forced to hold due reservation and to remain only mildly impressed by eloquent contentions that colleges exist solely to satisfy the wishes of the undergraduates. . . . What seems best for mankind as a whole cannot be forgotten or ignored in college management for the specious satisfaction of con forming to an ephemeral undergraduate opinion or the desires of self-centered individuals...
...times he had ever steeled himself-ever kept "in training," so to speak, though with nothing to gain but the satisfaction-ever driven himself by power of will and for a principle-all those thousand and one intangible little credits he had ever put by (and completely forgotten)-all that had come to life for him to draw upon to life to give him a balance enough on the right side to tide him over. That had been the second Voice...