Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spot in Paris copped his job of Minister of Merchant Marine in the new Laval Cabinet. Friends on the Normandie warned M. Bertrand that this would happen, urged him to call up M. Laval by radio telephone. ''That is not done!" exploded French M. Bertrand. "I cannot remind the President of the Council that I exist, by telephone...
...apparent supposition that lethargic pace was the proper cinema equivalent of Author Hergesheimer's peculiar prose style. As Taou Yuen, Anna May Wong, who last year appeared in an English screen version of Chu Chin Chow, gives a performance so admirable that it may serve to remind Hollywood producers that it is high time she returned for good...
...Goodrich Co. realized that a chunky, broad-shouldered young man who reported for work at the Akron factory one day in 1906 was the founder's nephew. James Dinsmore Tew, just out of Harvard and anxious to prove his worth, did not take the trouble to remind his employers that B. F. Goodrich Co. had once been called Goodrich, Tew & Co. At the end of two years, when young Tew was making $75 a month, he asked for a raise. "I'm sorry, Tew," was the reply, "but I'm afraid you've reached your limit...
...remind this Court," continued M. Boverat, "that public morality and the birthrate are intimately interrelated. Our researches incontrovertibly substantiate this fact. French Canada, a country with the highest morals, has the highest birth rate. In Germany, too, the statistics are pertinent. Since Adolf Hitler suppressed nude dancing the Nazi birthrate has risen 35,000 a year. Finally, I submit that this is not Chicago. This is Paris! How are people to know that she is an American and not a Frenchwomen? We have the good name of Paris and of France to think of! I demand that she be punished...
...book, a collection of short stories, not only deepened but broadened the impression her first one made. In Time: The Present Author Slesinger shows herself the somewhat proud possessor of what professors call "creative imagination." She has already been favorably compared with Dorothy Parker. Some of these stories may remind her readers of the late Katherine Mansfield...