Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York City's Drama Critics Circle decided to forego the cocktail party at which it usually honors the winners of its annual awards (see THEATER). George Jean Nathan (Journal-American and other Hearst papers), grumpy granddaddy of the critics, was heard to mumble something to the effect that it was "humiliating" to have to mingle with actors. But Colleague Richard Watts Jr. (Post Home News) confessed that this was not the whole story of how the critics really feel: "The melancholy truth is that most of them don't really like each other...
...must forego the emotional satisfaction of letting our sympathies be swept away either by the evils which surround us or the proposals for Utopias which rain on us from every side. A man must endeavor to be a rational human being without becoming a dehumanized intellectual machine...
...must forego the emotional satisfaction of letting our sympathies be swept away either by the evils which surround us or the proposals for Utopias which rain upon us from every side. A man must endeavor to be a rational human being without becoming a dehumanized intellectual machine...
...only five seconds of action against Yale opponents, while an athlete in a minor sport, no matter how brilliant his record, has to be content with a small letter. And if a man in any sport does not play in his Yale contest--for whatever reasons --he has to forego his letter...
Seven students chose to forego Christmas merriment this year and instead strung 5,000 feet of cable under the Weeks foot-bridge to bring WHRV broadcasts to the Business School for the first time...