Word: remind
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...object of such a monument (a war memorial) is to render honor to the dead, to precerve their memory, and remind those who come after of their heroism. The advantage of a Church or chapel is that one enters it in a spirit of reverence, and a church, therefore, adds something to the solemnity of a memorial, and this en-enhances the object sought...
...phrases that will always remind me of last summer's tour are 'mediaeval troubadours' and 'chicken salad'. At every village we visited, we were hailed by the local literati as 'mediaeval troubadours'. Every country newspaper mentioned us as the 'troubadours returned' or a 'refreshing voice from the past'. Our mediaeval origin was dinned into us from Maine to New York...
Seven hundred years ago died in Assisi a man called Francis. Little things suffice to remind men of great, and the coincidence that makes the number 1226 resemble the number 1926 was enough to set Benito Mussolini, that wise man, pondering upon the life and works of St. Francis of Assisi. Economy, piety, charity, simplicity, loyalty-these, and other bulking labels which people have tagged onto the man Francis, and which tradition stipulates for the order of Friars which he founded, appealed to Benito Mussolini as virtues that would well become the nation of Italy in his consulship. He proclaimed...
...from a peer who, born his equal, also happened to be born with more money? The Yeas have hung up signs in their restaurants, boot-parlors, or what not, saying "Please do not tip," or "Our Employes Are Strictly Forbidden to Accept Gratuities from Strangers." The Nays remind their patrons: "Don't Forget the Hat Girl." Will new signs appear, "A Waiter's Life Is No Cinch"-"Give Your Bus Boy a Few Days at the Seaside?" Will lounging millonaires be requested to "Send Your Doorman to the Mountains," "Let Your Dollars Shine the Life...
...bronze image of Benten-sama, complacent "Goddess of Mercy," was unveiled. For generations to come it will remind Japanese, whose thoughts might otherwise be bent too much on pleasure, that 730 geisha girls were killed at Tokyo by the earthquake...