Word: oblivion
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...somebody criticized the Sitwells. In the 98-year-old London weekly Reynolds News he wrote: "Among the literary curiosities of the nineteen-twenties will be the vogue of the Sitwells . . . whose energy and self-assurance pushed them into a position which their merits could not have won. . . . Now oblivion has claimed them and they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles...
...flattest flops of Broadway's flop-heavy season flopped into oblivion last week - Boudoir after eleven showings, Popsy after four...
Under the present set-up if a Freshman doesn't make the squad his Sophomore year, he is practically doomed to oblivion, for there is no place where he can improve himself. Through this evil the depth which is such a necessary adjunct of any college team is lacking on the Crimson forces
Dust hath closed Helen's eye-"It was quite irrelevant, really, a lament by Nashe in time of pestilence. . . . Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion...
...Miniver is haunted by evanescence. Each of her little sketches has the same haunted quality, an echo of the sense of time slipping away, which is Mrs. Miniver's main concern. Her frail net of words is flung to rescue from oblivion only the most available, most familiar things. She writes about the new car, Christmas shopping, the last day of the holidays, the first day of spring, a visit to a country house, where she has occasion to reflect on "the sound of a pack of upper-class English voices in full cry," and to be grateful...