Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor McKay said the Sunday travel supplements of newspapers remind him "of the one-sided nature of a society which sends its business leaders--not to speak of university administrators, reluctantly heeding the winter call of Florida alumni--to mend their nerves on Florida beaches while we professors inhale each other's germs in the fetid air of Widener Library...
Cartoonist Vicky last week recalled Shakespeare's description in King Henry V of the night before the battle of Agincourt, as Frenchmen stood around camp fires discussing the prowess that their English foes drew from a beef diet (see cartoon). Vicky did not think it necessary to remind Britons of the Duke of Orleans' comment: "Ay, but these English are shrewdly* out of beef...
...Collective Security. Above the intemperate outcry that beat upon the Anglo-American rock rose a steadier voice. London's Economist printed a deadpan parody to remind Britons that the principle of collective security for the free world is the same, East or West. Under the future dateline, "Lake Success, January 22, 1952," the Economist reported another, imaginary "ceasefire debate...
Nothing in the crowd of sturdy, suntanned relatives who saw Farmer Bunker to his grave could remind anyone of the medical quirk-luridly advertised by Barnum-that made freaks of their ancestors...
...sportwriter's or pressagent's copy (both of which he once turned out), are backed by generally good judgment, but there are exceptions. After a local performance of George Sessions Perry's play, My Granny Van, Rosenfield told a friend of Perry's: "Remind George that I haven't forgotten that he misspelled my name" in a book Perry wrote on Texas. The next day Rosy wrote a stinging review of the play...