Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chatterbox rural parish discovers the affair and turns against him as a defender of evil. He loses his church and is about to hang himself when a small child and an ancient farmer remind him that love and courage are enduring loyalties in life...
...never enjoyed before. Eleanor Glyn, Robert Service, and all the other pygmies who mistake an anthill for Parnassus, may swell with new clation at the thought that Shakespeare is competing with them. But this unwonted fame may turn the true lover of Shakespeare to cynical thoughts and remind him of what Bismarck said when he was hissed by the populace of Berlin: "If I ever attain any degree of popularity, I shall know I have done something incredibly stupid...
...success of the Harvard Glee Club's annual appearance here a few days ago serves once more to remind us that here is a novel experiment in music. Several years ago, when Dr. Archibald T. Davison took charge, college glee clubs were as negligible as could well be imagined. The literature available to them included "The Owl and Pussy Cat" and "The Bullfrog on the Bank," with "Kentucky Babe" thrown in for the classical taste, and it included very little else. In fact, most people regarded college glee clubs as in the same category as measles epidemics and grasshopper plagues...
...Your recent bill for memory course received. For got to mention when I ordered same that I was broke and couldn't pay. I recall this easily now, however, as course was fine, and I shall always remember your kindness. With fond recollections, etc. P. S.--You need not remind me of this matter again...
Premier Herriot countered by ordering the Prefects to remind parents that, in obeying the Catholic Archbishop, they would render themselves liable to legal prosecution by transgressing the law of 1871 which provides for fines and imprisonment for parents keeping their children away from school...