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Word: forgot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a while his money ran low, his friends were out when he went to call on them, his law business went to pot. At that point Richard Knight pulled himself together and got down to work again. He acquired a house on Long Island. His friends forgot his recent unlovely behavior, once more found him irresistibly amusing. He married handsome Dorothy Ledyard, daughter of a distinguished Manhattan attorney. They had two children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

When he was a little boy in Glasgow 30 years ago William Primrose loved to saw away at an old viola that was around the house. His father, who was himself a disappointed viola player, strongly objected, set little William to practicing the violin instead. But William never forgot the charms of the forbidden viola. Years later, in Brussels, when his teacher, the late great violinist and tosspot Eugene YsaŸe, told William he had special aptitude for the viola, he switched to it for life. In 1937, when NBC officials were recruiting their new NBC Symphony, they heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viola and Primrose | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...make this a good bet. Probably will be crowded as it isn't murderous in its prices. . . . The Mayfair: about the same as the others, a little noisier, and more expensive. . . Crawford House-to be avoided if possible. Slumming that isn't even fun. . . By the way, we almost forgot the two swanker of the Boston night spots, the Fox and Hounds and the newly created Zero Hereford. Music at both is universal, but not too good. See and be seen is the motto here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Last week Mexico forgot war for the nonce as the P. R. M. (Party of the Mexican Revolution) convened to choose a candidate for next July's presidential election, and to build him a platform. Usually the selection of a P. R. M. candidate is all that is needed to assure his election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Silent Victory | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Then the curtain went up, and the audience broke into a roar while for three minutes Potter sprawled on a porch and leaned against a pillar, mumbling any spare cusswords he remembered to cover up any regulation dialogue he forgot. After that, Barton took over the part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Three-Minute Man | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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