Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like Hollywood. It is a dull and enervating place. And the girls are not half so lovely as they are cracked up to be. They have a hard and anxious look about them." What he did like was the mountaineers of West Virginia, whose reticence and modesty remind him of people in remote parts of Ireland. Even better, Fitzgerald likes to stroll around Harlem. "The Negroes there seem to live so casual a life. And there is much in a casual life...
...Tiso's powerful Prime Minister is Bela Tuka, an outright pro-Nazi who was condemned to death for treason in 1929, later reprieved by Czechoslovakia's merciful President Eduard Benes. A bitter anti-Czech, Karol Sidor, is Slovakian Minister to the Vatican. He and Father Tiso constantly remind Catholic Slovaks that most of Czechoslovakia's leaders in exile are Protestant...
Democrats crowed over the result.* From the realistic, anti-Roosevelt New York Daily News, Republicans got hard-headed advice: "Republicans would do well not to console themselves too nonchalantly with alibis. This defeat ought to remind them that the fight to defeat a Roosevelt fourth term is not over by a long shot." To the G.O.P., the lesson was clear -hatred is not enough...
...perhaps worth saying, although nearly everybody else in the U.S. had said it before him. What was its "significance"? Best guess: Dewey was thinking of next week's crucial Wisconsin Presidential primary. Wendell Willkie was on the scene, hard at work; perhaps Tom Dewey thought he needed to remind Wisconsin that if you looked hard for a candidate, he wasn't really invisible...
...intimate friends, but Churchill does most of the talking. Churchill serves the King competently and with abiding respect, calls his monarch "Sir." The King, in his chats with Churchill, sometimes displays the British humor which lightens his otherwise grey job. When Winston is especially ebullient, George will remind him that, after all, the most brilliant of Prime Ministers merely moves within the monarchy's ancient orbit...