Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those who would remodel the present college educational system, seeing in its products too many defects for any hope of accomplished perfection often forget completely the necessity for strong and capable direction in primary and secondary school work. There is far too little known in this day of changing conceptions and fluctuating principles about the exact mental, physical, and moral discipline which the modern child requires. With the home leaning, from either ignorance or pure selfishness, upon the school, a higher type of educator is most necessary that the colleges need not click their gates against faces more ambitious than...
Miss Mackaill is a delightfully queer and intriguingly dear person (I can't forget those subtitles) and one just knows she has it. But the direction decided to make an intimate story more intimate by confining it to a series of close ups. And no girl, as the hook nose of the Armenian who admitted he was an Armenian and was therefore probably an Armenian since no one would call himself an Armenian if it weren't once suggested, can really be attractive beneath a microscope. Though she can dance, very well or more or less, as The Honorable Peter...
...little to the neighbors. It meant much to musicians. They knew that Mrs. Roy Emerson Whittern is also Ethel Leginska,* famed more for her disappearances than for her appearances. They were interested to hear that Leginska says she has definitely retired from the concert stage: "The public will soon forget me as a pianist and I shall be glad. No one knows how I have suffered for the past 17 years every time I have been obliged to face an audience. Concert playing may be spectacular, but the great art is in composing and conducting. I am never frightened when...
Otto Hermann Kahn lets himself get into print so much as a patron of art and music that readers tend to forget Kahn the great international banker, member of Kuhn, Loeb...
...this Senior's mind ostensibly reserved for the Scotch imitators of Chaucer. When she sang, in a pleasingly pretty fashion, we found our inner brain pondering, despite ourselves, on the virtues of Dryden's prose style. When she spoke, in a delightfully mellifluous drawl, we could not entirely forget the family life of Milton, but when she danced--divisionals, oh yes, when does that examination come, and if so, what...