Word: remindful
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...raise the yearly minimum wage ($1,036 plus a house) of its ministers when a sturdy dockworker rose, announced that his salary was $3,360, and made a strong plea for the underpaid clergy. "That is well said," replied the Rev. John McBeath, assembly president, "but let me remind you that you canna tak the breeks off a Hielan' mon!" Nonetheless, the assembly voted a $140 increase...
Down at the brave new world of New Haven, athletic Elis have practiced to the drone of slogans designed to remind them of their close shave with the University of Connecticut and their struggle with Columbia...
...important a place in the scheme of things as anyone else. The thought delights the girl, and she rejoins her man. But after a subsequent chance meeting in which the brute beats the clown to death the heroine becomes acutely sad, whimpering at any number of things that remind her of the clown. Her owner steals away to resume his solitary wandering. Only years later, when he hears of her death, he suffers for the first time a real sorrow...
...impression whatever of having seen "forty years and one thousand lowerings" on whaling ships. His bland face has nothing of the torn, tortured, gnawed-at, fiery look that Ahab should have. Rather, as he paces the Pequod's deck, his long strides, suspenders, beard, and melancholy, almost soft, expression remind the viewer more of one of Ahab's prominent but quite contrasting contemporaries--Abe Lincoln...
...serve to remind the world that Bach as well as Himmler was German, and that Hitler was an enemy of Christians as much as of Jews. From the time Hitler took power in 1933 he held German honor in prison, and it is a sort of miracle that honor's voice was ever heard, and that it should speak, not as might be expected, in hatred and hysteria, but in the grave tones of Christian charity...