Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just To Remind You, In the theatre, last week was a dire week for the nation's infirmities. First there was Just To Remind You, a sturdy expose of the U. S. laundry racket. Then there was Ladies Of Creation, in which the interior decorating business was delicately satirized (see p. 54). After that came The Man On Stilts, which attempted to skewer the mild insanity which surrounds flagpole sitters, marathon dancers and the like...
First spark of trouble came from swart Communist Senator Maldonado. He rose in the Senate, condemned the monopoly, demanded that the Government withdraw it. Up jumped Senator Cueva Garcia to remind the Senators that if the monopoly were cancelled, Ecuador would have to repay Kreuger & Toll's $2,000,000 loan. That might be awkward. A melee followed. Somebody got a message to Garcia that a mob was waiting for him outside. Colleagues spirited him away to safety. The monopoly was withdrawn...
...shaven and of impressive mien, Franz von Mendelssohn did not go to Washington last week. He addressed the congress, whose president he will be next year, from Berlin. "My voice," said Mighty Mendelssohn, "as that of a single individual coming across the ocean, is weak and feeble. But I remind you that other voices are making the same appeal . . . the voices of . . . the 20,000,000 unemployed in the world...
...best for Spain, or concerning purely human interests. However, when the rights of religion are imperiled it is absolutely essential for Catholics to unite to secure the election of candidates to the Assembly who will guarantee to defend the rights of the Church and the social order. . . . Let us remind you that King Alfonso and his family steadfastly kept the Catholic faith...
...part in honoring the late great financier George Fisher Baker, Financier Adolph Lewisohn of Manhattan took occasion to remind the public: "When I gave the School of Mines Building to Columbia [University] the building was to be named the Lewisohn Building and Mr. Baker, then one of the trustees of Columbia, advised me to call it the Columbia School of Mines Building. . . . He had inserted in the floor of the front entrance of the building a tablet reading: 'This building is the gift of Adolph Lewisohn. . . . Mr. Baker was a good adviser in all matters...