Word: remind
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for the predominance of khaki in the stands and air-raid instructions on the programs, there was nothing to remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
...ambiguity of the mission. Punch printed an old-fashioned cartoon showing Mr. Welles dealing in magic and spells (see cut). A hard-bitten British officer, holding up the Conte di Savoia for 13 hours while Sumner Welles sat in his cabin writing his report, took one last occasion to remind the U. S. of Britain's position: "This is war," said he. "There might be somebody aboard whom we want to take...
...interrupting) "Yes, I know. It was all my fault. You remind me of it often enough. It's my fault that we're here now instead of in the Garden of Eden. But ... it hasn't been so bad, has it, Adam? We've had some happiness, haven...
...costuming is deserving of mention. The lavish gowns of the "feminine" leads remind one of Schiaparelli's best. It is surprising how mere draping can lend a seductive enchantment to a mere male form. The show, as a whole, is an embryonic Rodgers and Hart production...
...born as to be nameless, Aretino took his name from his town, Arezzo, where he was born on Good Friday of the year Columbus sighted America. (Good Friday, as his enemies loved to remind the world, was the legendary birthday of the Antichrist.) Mature and restive at 15, he quit home. He worked, during the next few years, as a servant in Rome, a street singer, a hostler in Bologna, a moneylender's agent, tax collector, mule driver, hangman's assistant, miller, courier, pimp, mountebank, swindler, galley slave. At 24 he got into the service of Agostino Chigi...