Word: oblivion
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...Christmas dinner not in the villa of her friends Mr. & Mrs. Herman Livingston Rogers but with her famed chaperon Aunt Bessie in a Cannes hotel. Greatest ambition of the Woman of the Year seemed to be to drop from world publicity's most glaring spotlight to utter oblivion, the perfect 1937 exit for the Woman...
...many times in the past has this idea been envisaged, only to fade into semi-oblivion; dimmed by delay, criticism and the force of more pressing problems. Through the depression years, when millions were relying on alms for life, bread and medical care, the idea of social insurance loomed ever higher as a vital need when the time should present itself for the country's reorganization. Though the proverbial horse had fled, it seemed better to lock the door once again than to forget entirely and to move on in willful blindness. Yet the idea then seemed too large...
Other features included an article on The New Yorker's Editor Harold Ross by The American Legion Monthly's Editor John T. Winterich, a We Rescue from Oblivion department spotlighting such has-beens as Clara Bow, William H. ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, the Dolly Sisters. Throughout the book were scattered caricatures of such thoroughly-caricatured celebrities as Ernest Hemingway, William Randolph Hearst. Joe Louis. Impartial observers guessed that the winters in Mt. Morris, Ill. must indeed be tiresome...
...sacrifice was in one respect vain. Admiral Okada, after his spectacular "resurrection," found it impossible to remain Premier because of pressure from the middle-aged Japanese Radical-Militarists whose young Army assassins so narrowly failed to kill him. Admiral Okada last week had retired from office into deepest political oblivion-his career assassinated by weapons more subtle than the bullets which slew his brother...
...plot, more unusual because of its interpretation than its content, concerns itself with a young architect (Franchot Tone) who reclaims from drunken oblivion a once great actress (Bette Davis). Though already engaged Tone finds himself falling in love with Miss Davis and breaks his engagement. The issue however, is complicated by the presence of Miss Davis' former husband. A very unusual conclusion defies the custom of happy endings: seeming to be dictated by a sense of justice and duty, more real than Hollywood fantasy. We especially recommend this picture and Miss Davis' interpretation of a drunken derelict in particular...