Word: oblivion
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...more than being children's playthings. English Author David Garnett has rescued Pocahontas from the textbook attic and put her in grown-up clothes. With strict fidelity to historical documents he has made a valiant try at turning a pseudo-fairy tale* into a work of art. From oblivion, a fate worse than death, Pocahontas saved one Englishman; now another, by restoring her to pristine, savage humanity, has paid the account...
Last week was no exception for comings & goings. Tatler, "society" gossipsheet, followed its old contemporary Town Topics into oblivion. An obscure magazine named Short Shorts quit. The Catholic Boy, first publication of its kind in the U. S., was started in St. Paul. Something called The Moment popped up in Brooklyn. And a loudly ballyhooed Modern Youth appeared...
...hastened by the prospect of a remunerative spectacle so much needed for unhealthy budgets. The puerilities have been left in the past, and there is cause for rejoicing. The good offices of Yale and the Naval Academy in bringing about the reconciliation should not be forgotten. Beyond that, oblivion for the incident of 1926 is the most Harvard and Princeton can desire...
...said that a certain Elizabethan poet, a rugged fellow and something of a cynic, ordered that a Latin inscription be carved under his name on his tombstone, which translated reads: "Dedicated to Oblivion." The Vagabond, like a bad preacher, has put the text at the end of the sermon, but perhaps it can pass for a moral as well...
Hero Control. Since Lindbergh flew to Paris, 16 other planes have reached Europe from the U. S. Nearly as many have roared eastward to disaster; some of them to oblivion, others to be rescued. In the past season alone, six Europe-bound planes dropped into the Atlantic. The Pacific likewise has taken toll. Rescue work is often as dangerous as, usually more costly than the actual flights attempted. Formerly the Department of Commerce only looked on, conceding that many transocean flights were worthwhile experiments. But nowadays, with conventional equipment, they are apt to be merely repetitious. Last week the Department...