Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newshen Montgomery was awakened by her telephone: a cheery Edgar was on the line, wanting to know if she could hustle right over to the Statler. Edgar had plenty on his mind-so much that after 50 minutes of breathless note-taking, she had to remind him of a White House appointment, and give him a shove in the right direction...
...From now until the general election, New Jerseyites are due for a frontal assault from a determined, politically canny young man. In a state where Eisenhower swept through such traditional Democratic strongholds as Hudson County last year, Forbes will lose no chance to remind voters that he was an original Eisenhower man. Although Forbes is a millionaire, and editor and publisher of conservative Forbes' business magazine, founded by his father,* he is an all-out modern Republican on the hustings. He combines a talent for extemporaneous debate with thorough knowledge of political and economic affairs gleaned from heavy reading...
...Village girl and his roving, unattached friend desperately want is just what he unwittingly possesses--a loving and faithful mate--he thinks again. The various plights of the other men, one endangering his health to keep his children in school, serve either to egg him on to infidelity or remind hime of his good fortune...
...been breaking the law all along.* I don't see why he suddenly has become so pious that he can't keep essential service going.'' Mailman Summerfield refused to budge until he got cash on the barrelhead. And he took the opportunity to remind the U.S. of one of the freaks of Government accounting: no matter how much money the Post Office takes in by selling stamps and money orders, the Post Office cannot use a cent of it. Reason: the receipts go into the general fund of the Treasury, while the Post Office lives strictly...
Sunday morning, Webster called at the Parkman home and identified himself as the visitor who had stopped to remind Parkman of the appointment. The appointment had been kept; Webster said he had seen Parkman at the Medical School, (then near the present Mass. General Hospital), and had paid him $483.64, which he owed the doctor. "I told Dr. Parkman," he said, "that he hadn't discharged the mortgage; to which he replied, 'I will see to that. I will see to that.' He then went out very rapidly from the room...