Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of view of the author as he turns his imagination on the characters who fill his book and the combination of influences that have made him the individual he is and given him the point of view he holds. Like fragmentary warnings scattered through the volumes, they constantly remind the reader of the author's bias, warn him that Dos Passes' picture of reality has been colored by his personal experiences. After the chapter in The Big Money describing Charley Anderson's return to the U. S., The Camera Eye relates memories of Dos Passes...
...social reform for poor Englishmen, confederation and preferential tariffs for the Empire and, internationally, an understanding between Britain, the U. S. and Germany. Last week fell the 100th anniversary of Old Joe's birth, and the two sons, born to two mothers who were cousins, uprose to remind England of their heritage...
...Roosevelt is by no means an exception to the rule that a U. S. President, like plain citizens, needs an occasional friendly cheer to lift and reassure his spirits. No more is he an exception to the rule that a President also needs a friend with the gumption to remind him that he cannot always be right, offer sympathetic but searching criticism of his plans and purposes, occasionally say "no" to his bright inspirations. More impulsive than most, Franklin Roosevelt had such a salutary intimate in the late Louis McHenry Howe. Since that devoted little secretary took to his deathbed...
Actual purpose of the independence bill was hinted by Director Ernest Gruening of the Interior Department's Division of Territories and Island Possessions: to remind Puerto Rico that, although U. S. colonies perpetually grumble, the colonial arrangement usually works much more to their profit than to the profit of the U. S. Said Dr. Gruening last week: "Nothing could be further from the spirit and purpose of this Administration than to keep a people, not consulted originally about its annexation, under our flag if they do not desire to be there. ... If, on the other hand, they decide...
...subsidiary role in a weak picture called Change of Heart. She scored another personal success. More worried than ever, Fox decided to let someone else find the answer, loaned her to Paramount to feature in Little Miss Marker. Fox took the hint, featured her in a picture called, to remind cinemaddicts who she was, Baby, Take a Bow, then shuttled her back to Paramount for Now and Forever. When the grosses of these three pictures were recorded, it was undeniably apparent that Shirley Temple was potentially the most valuable human property in Hollywood. Now thoroughly alarmed, Fox got stage fright...