Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dear Arpinati, if memory does not lead me into error, the City of Bologna alone has given 46 dead to our cause. Let us remind all those who are forgetful of them. Let us evoke them all. one by one, those unforgettable comrades of ours. Has so much blood been shed in vain? Fascist Bologna cries out to me its passionate, fiery "No." Long live Fascismo...
...Woolsack is a red-covered cushion stuffed with wool. The first is said to have been placed in the House by Edward III to remind their lordships of the importance of England's wool trade...
...things which makes the memory of University days precious to alumni is the recollection of the host of customs and traditions by which their undergraduate days were ruled. Like the Hand of Death and the Laws of the Medes and Persians, they were steadfast, unmovable, always present to remind the newcomer of the whims and fancies of his predecessors, and to serve as a connecting link between the young generation and the old. When a tradition is broken or a custom allowed to fall into disuse, something very close to the spirit of the college is taken away...
...hostility being expressed in foreign diplomatic circles, particularly by Mr. Edouard Herriot in Paris, the Nationalist leaders cast about for some means with which to quiet such unworthy suspicions. Alighting happily upon the already miserable Crown Prince, they suggest his temporary attendance at an agricultural course at Brealau, and remind him of the advantages which should result to his estate at Oala from a sincere, if transient interest therein...
...invasion of the Ruhr, and at a time when France daily stamps on the Treaty of Versailles, a man devotes himself to the execution of this Treaty in the interests of France, I can only describe such action as the limit of self-abasement. Furthermore, I should like to remind you that in the event of any public discussion of the questions mentioned in your letter I shall proceed against you with every means under the state of siege quite apart from any proceedings for treason...