Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denied even this. Hummon sent one Jimmy Dykes (237 boarlike pounds of smalltime politician) to sit at it instead. Said Jimmy, when Arnall arrived: "Ellis, you remind me of a hawg. Did you ever slop a hawg? The more you give him the more he wants and he never knows when to get out of the trough...
...will be necessary first to review the facts, since the Crimson misrepresented them: The organization is the Catholic Club. The postcard sent out by them did not remind anyone to vote for any candidate. It said, (and I quote the exact words used) "The Catholic Club nominee is James Sullivan. We urge you to vote." That was all. The writer of the postcard was obviously very careful to avoid saying that the members of the Club should vote for "their" nominee; he merely urged them to vote, and certainly no, one can take exception to that...
...Adam! You're home early.' " Adam is worried about weather, crops, and his son Cain, who is a wild spirit. Eve comforts him: "God has been kinder to us than we deserved.' "' Than we deserved ! It was your - "'Yes, I know. ... You remind me of it often enough. It's my fault that we're here now instead of in the Garden of Eden. But... we have each other, Adam.' " 'Yes, that's true. But I wish you wouldn't talk so much when I come home tired...
...Nottingham alabastermen. Once, throughout Europe, their work was literally worshiped; today, London's man-in-the-street finds it less familiar than Congo carvings, Chinese jade, or Henry Moore's pinheaded women. Now a wealthy U.S. expatriate, Dr. Walter Leo Hildburgh, has set out to remind England of its alabastrine past...
...Pieter de Hooches; one phony Vermeer he had patriotically palmed off on Göring (TIME, Sept. 10, 1945). To prove it, he painted still another "Vermeer," Jesus in the Temple (see cut), in his cell. It looked unlike Vermeer's cool, clean interiors, but did remind Dutch art experts of one of the master's few religious paintings: Christ with Mary and Martha...