Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banquet lasted, with intervals of song and story, for hours. At the end of it Consul Speiser made a speech. He wanted to remind his dear friends, his honored guests, of those dear days when Tanga was one of the chief jewels in the Kaiser's crown. He wanted to remind them too that it was from German East Africa that the commerce raider Konigsberg, almost as spectacular as the Emden, started in 1914, and that it was not far from Tanga harbor that she was finally sunk with colors flying...
...remind you gentlemen, that as Lord Salisbury once said...
...dresses in the traditional rusty-grey frock coat, the wide-brimmed black hat of Bryan and the oldtimers, which helps distinguish him among the more babbitty modern members. In the House his voice assumes a peculiar, almost clerical (but not monotonous) drone. Then he is meek, likes to remind his listeners that his mother was a Quaker. His own faith is the Episcopalian. He drives out of Washington for Sunday services in country churches. He smokes three cigars a day. does not chew, swears privately. His fraternal affiliations: Masons (32nd degree. Knights Templar. Shriner). Rotary. Odd Fellows. (Continued Outside Congress...
...again for the 1930 campaign. Shrewd Republican politicians saw the advantages in breaking the rival party once more by the simple method of putting Mr. Raskob into the lobby spotlight, examining him on Prohibition. Even if he has done no lobbying, his appearance before the Committee would serve to remind Dry Democrats throughout the land that they still had a Wet leader, to rekindle the old fires which gutted the party homestead...
...month, was returning to the Naval Conference for the weekend. Every member of the French delegation was on the platform ; Britain's first Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander rushed away from a football game at the Oval to extend felicitations. Ramsay MacDonald sent a messenger to remind M. Tardieu to be sure to motor out to Chequers for Sunday lunch. U. S. and Japanese assistant secretaries beamed a welcome. At the Carlton Hotel, headquarters of the French delegation, doors banged frantically for hours as technicians and diplomats rushed in and out. About 10:30 p.m. Prime Minister Tardieu...