Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterest grudges, the most grinding poverty, the strongest loves were forgotten last week. Poles are phlegmatic. Poland's suicide rate, the lowest in Europe, is nine per 100,000 compared with 13 in Britain, 29 in Germany. As last week wore on, as the nerves of the rest of the world unraveled like rope-ends, only one complaint was to be heard in Poland: What are they waiting for? Isn't it clear that compromise is out of the question? Why do they not begin? Soon enough of the questions were answered...
Persona grata with the Nazi regime, no exile, Wilhelm's oldest son, Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor August Ernst, now 57, was discovered living quietly in Potsdam, near Berlin. Almost forgotten last week was the deep hatred which citizens of the Allies held for the Crown Prince, almost forgotten such famed cartoons as the one the Chicago Herald printed in World War I (see cut). Caption: "Drink...
...week Winston Churchill was less like a public figure than like some oldfashioned, battered Gladstone bag stuffed full of the relics of Empire-pieces of prejudices, bits of old patriotic songs (music hall comedians used to call him "Winnie"), mementoes of old Imperial wild oats, mistakes, idyllic weekends better forgotten. Jaunty, witty, informed, expert, positive, a sparkling talker when interested, a growling monster of rudeness when bored, he said in 1939 what he had said in 1903, and knew he said it better. An unabashed lover of the sound of his own voice, talking to himself very loudly when alone...
What the museums of Berlin and Vienna, Rome and Florence were doing, nobody troubled to inquire. But FORTUNE disclosed last week that Vatican City, Europe's smallest nation, had not forgotten war. Unprotected stood its lovely frescoes and its statuary; but the Vatican has bombproof shelters underground...
...Cavanaugh performs a "radical breast removal" in a state of jitters. (Six of his last nine cases had died.) The crisis comes when the lights go out. As they come on again he is suddenly his old self again. "For a minute," he quips, "I thought we'd forgotten to pay our light bill...