Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Frank Hague wasted no time in gloating. With his old-fashioned starched collar tight above a chaste pearl stickpin, he went out to remind the people of his years of toil in their behalf. With revival-meeting fervor the Boss told his followers that he was still pure at heart: "Let them point to one blemish on my record as mayor of Jersey City!" Liberation Candidate Paul E. Dougherty almost blew a gasket. Cried he: "... On a salary of never more than $8,000 he can own a summer home worth $125,000, a home in Miami...
...towns. But though Peoria, Ill. lies in the corn belt, it is a pretty big town (pop. 105,087). It is also a river town, and it grew up around a whiskey keg, not a cracker barrel. Last week, after a new city primary election, Peoria had occasion to remind itself of its free-&-easy tradition once again...
...Father's Day . . . and days for this and that and everything." Since "they are all aimed at honoring the family," she offered a suggestion of her own: "I think they . . . ought to be lumped together as a sort of 'Family Day' when we could remind people of parents' duties to children and vice versa." In her newspaper column, she offered a quick glimpse at Roosevelt family life: "Certainly in . . . our large family there is never a dearth of conversation! I am not sure that it is always pleasant, but . . . it is always stimulating...
...just about the time I got mine, and I've been cutting his hair ever since. The P.M., you know, is an old bachelor, without any wife to check him up, so I always call his office about once every three weeks and remind him that it's about time for a trim. Shampoo? With that little fringe...
Hattie Carnegie finally relented last week, closed a discreet curtain on the photographic blowup of limbless men, leaving only the papier-mâché model in the wheel chair to remind her customers of War Loan...