Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Life started for him in Providence, R. I., 55 years ago on, as he is always ready to remind you, July 4. He trouped with his family, The Four Cohans, in "Jerry Cohan's Irish Hibernia" when he was nine. His sister Josie was billed as "America's Youngest and Most Graceful Skirt Dancer." "Master Georgie" was featured for his "violin tricks and tinkling tunes." Aged 13, George traveled the country in Peck's Bad Boy, grew inured to the beatings he had to take in every town from boys who were irked by the Peck...
...lovely estranged wife (Elissa Landi), does his best to dismiss vampirish Lady Joyce (Juliette Compton). Chilcote's faithful servant Brock (Halliwell Hobbes) is party to the deception, helps prolong it until Chilcote is dead and Loder has nothing but a War scar on his wrist to remind him that he has been a masquerader...
...pilgrimage to the Mount of the Holy Cross where religious services are held before a rocky peak on which late melting snows in two ravines form a gigantic white cross. . . . Post delivery trucks continued to block traffic on Champa Street. . . . Everything was as usual. There was nothing to remind the Post reader that notorious Publisher Frederick Gilmer Bonfils had been dead for four months (TIME, Feb. 13); nothing to indicate that instead of "Bon's" bushy grey head bowed over the massive desk in his office, there was now poised the attractive blonde head of his daughter Helen. Following...
...good time when their turns came to climb up on a grown-up chair, bow vigorously, tap for attention and direct the others. Karl Moldrem, the man who , founded and patiently trained the New York Baby Orchestra, appeared on the stage to help the children tune their violins, to remind each of the young conductors that they were to wave their arms in three-four or four-four time. Beyond that he left them to their own resources...
...Feckless Dinner-Party," a gro- tesque parable of how a sophisticated group of diners were led astray by the butler ("Toomes") into the dark, silent cellars, the broken conversational lines may remind the reader of de la Mare's famed relation, Robert Browning, but the theme and its unraveling are very delaMare. "Thus Her Tale" tells of a suicide's ghost that still haunts her undiscovered bones, hidden in a thicket. In "The Owl," a baker's wife and daughter are shamed and frightened out of their wits and into their true selves by the silent gaze...