Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Death of Jesus Christ. As a Holy Year it should turn even the most casual Christian to thoughts of his Savior. Whatever material improvement the year may bring, may, after prayer, honestly be attributed by Christians to Christian faith. And once more a Holy Year will serve to remind the world that Pius XI, 261st Pope, once a mountain climber named Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, is at 75 a world figure, the hale, vigorous-minded ruler of some 300 million souls of all races. A temporal sovereign-in his 108.7-acre Vatican City, he is master of millions & millions...
...Hollywood, Reginald Barlow had just called to order a meeting of cinema stars-among them Clark Gable, Jack Oakie, Claudette Colbert, Wallace Beery, Richard Barthelmess-to discuss a prospective 50% pay cut . "If this is an earthquake," said he, "I need not remind you that the safest place to be is where...
Check. But just as Araki seemed most certain of being rid of it, the League stiffened. Reason: U. S. Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson had caused his ambassador to remind all Foreign Powers that, in effect, the U. S. would not recognize conquest by force. The U. S. became the last obstacle in the Divine Emperor's way. But in the mind of Sadao Araki there is just one means (to date highly successful) to overcome obstacles: the sword of the Samurai...
...name was a trumpet-call; his mere existence stirred us as a child is stirred by a fairy-tale." Able Novelist Wassermann, better at spinning new fairytales than at retelling old ones, fails to bring to life the hero of his adolescence, but his book will serve to remind the world of many a forgotten fact about a onetime world-figure...
...usually able characterizers, and vice versa; it is too hard to do, gives unnecessarily much for the money. Oldster Eden Phillpotts has made a sturdy attempt. With an old-fashioned dignity and dialectal fidelity reminiscent of the late great Thomas Hardy, he tells a gruesome tale that may remind more than one reader of its prototype, Macbeth. Character is Destiny, Author Phillpotts believes. On this text he is writing a three-decker novel, of which Bred in the Bone is the first part...