Word: remind
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Least anyone forget (and he will remind you himself) Dante is the one and only and rightful successor, to the long line of Kellers and Thurstons. Not only is his wizardry completely baffling even to the wiseguys in the first row, but Dante has the knack of setting off each illusion with settings as grandiose as Little Egypt or Barnum and Breley. "Sim Sala Bim" is not just a series of card tricks but a continuous spectacle. One minute Dante draws gallos of beer from a dry keg, the next he is producing ghosts from empty cabinets and making...
...York Post urged an end to bitter feelings and words, then proceeded thus to remind John L. Lewis of his promise to resign as head of C. I. O. upon President Roosevelt's reelection: "Here's your hat, pal-and your reversible coat." Washington observers predicted 1) that with Lewis' resignation, C. I. O.-A. F. L. peace would come soon; 2) that as leader of United Mine Workers, Lewis would continue as a potent C. I. O. figure despite his resignation; 3) that able, undramatic Phil Murray would head...
...comment is just to remind TIME that the Army does not garrison Navy bases. The Marine Corps has been doing that job in a satisfactory manner for some past years...
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "Old Ironsides" in 1830, to remind patriots that the U. S. Frigate Constitution had served well against the Barbary pirates, the French, the British (in her most famous battle in the War of 1812 she reduced the lighter Guerriere to smoking smithereens). The poem saved the Constitution from the junk pile. From grog tub to untattered sails, she was still shipshape last week, afloat at the Boston Navy Yard and useful mainly for show to visitors. Similarly listed "in service, out of commission" until last fortnight was Constitution's contemporary, Constellation, stationed at Newport...
...charmed Henry Agard Wallace, who lived to be Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture and 1940 choice for the Vice-Presidency. If the President remembered the first anniversary, he gave no sign of it. Henry Wallace, again with his friend and chief at Hyde Park, had to remind him of the second one. "That's right!" Mr. Roosevelt exclaimed, "and pretty happy eight years for both...