Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathy for her Red neighbors.) Marching! Marching! obeys the law of Marxian fiction in having no hero but half-a-dozen protagonists, each symbolizing some aspect of the proletarian struggle. In spite of her ancestry and her creed, Clara Weatherwax writes first-rate, first-hand U.S. prose that will remind more than one reader of Dos Passes. Her propaganda will propagate few proselytes, but her winged words should strike home to even a carapacic conservative...
Wives of great men do not all remind us how sublime their husbands were, for not all relicts of the great write books about their husbands. When they do, the experiment often turns out to be a flop. A more dangerously intimate observer than even a valet, a wife with the best will in the world is likely to detract more than she adds to a man's reputation. But now & again, in spite of its stained-glass windows, a widow's memorial lets in an occasional shaft of light on the human figure within. Like Frieda Lawrence...
sirs, . . . The Croix de Feu is entirely unpolitical, has no "platform" and Colonel de La Rocque has no aspirations of dictatorship a la Mussolini. . . . Its enemies are Communism and Free Masonry. (Here I remind you that Free Masonry in France has no resemblance to the very fine organization of the same name in other parts of the world. American and English Free Masons are forbidden to recognize this bastard branch of France to whose activities many dark pages in French history can be traced.) . . . Fascism is only the label given this fine organization by its enemies - a false statement...
From the March of Time newsreel about Palestine, the Board last month cut all scenes showing German Nazi persecution of Jews. The official explanation was that it had all happened some time before and it was unnecessary to remind people of it. From the March of Time newsreel about Ethiopia, the Board cut all evidences of British armed force, including naval guns, marching men and officers toasting the King. From the newsreel about France's Fascist organization, the Croix de Feu, it cut all indications that the late Alexandre Stavisky was protected by grafting high officials and that...
...family laundry, scrubbed her own floors. First real luck came year and a half ago when Paul Whiteman engaged her for a radio series. Winters have been all work but in the summers she takes time off for fishing, becomes so absorbed in surfcasting that her husband has to remind her that her business is singing...