Word: forgottenness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once again, then, hope flickers before the tired eyes of the nations. Yet there have been other promises in other treaties, and men in the fury of their vengeance or their lust have forgotten the promises and destroyed the treaties. Now a new document lies on the table of the conference at Locarno. Dare one hope that this may serve as the safeguard of a lasting peace...
Reports from London indicate that the results were more encouraging than any of its sponsors probably dared hope when the project was set on foot. In five minutes the audience had forgotten the novelty of the costuming and stage properties and were completely absorbed in the play. Shakespeare's art asserted itself as infinitely superior to a tendency to giggle when Hamlet appeared in modern clothes; and the upshot of the matter was that only those Londoners were amused by the idea who had not seen the play...
...first time in history the President of the U. S. is the nominal head of a religious denomination-for Calvin Coolidge is Honorary Moderator of the Congregational Church (TIME, Oct. 29, 1923). But it must not be forgotten that the head of another Church is an ex-President of the U. S.-William Howard Taft. Since 1915 Mr. Taft has been President of the General Conference of the Unitarian Church...
...that year are not given. Perhaps in the interest of truth and the unsuspecting youth of America, Mr. Vandercook is reserving them for another article. But at least a certain general truth about Yale, long suspected, is now established once for all. From that momentous and never-to-be-forgotten season at New Haven Mr. Vandercook says he emerged with "nothing but an unalterably low opinion of education in general and American universities in particular...
...Thomas has a right to his opinions. I have met him in joint debate and replied to the false propaganda which fills his new play. His mistaken sincerity is unquestioned. But Mr. Thomas looks on America today with jaundiced eyes. He has forgotten the elemental themes of love, ambition and sorrow which make the world laugh and weep, and turned soap box orator for the outlawed brewer and distiller. It's a pity. The reputation of Playwright Thomas and that part of the American theater involved in propaganda which encourages lawlessness will both suffer...