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...days like these, our Thanksgiving next year may remind us of a peaceful past. It is possible that our boys in the military and naval academies may next year be fighting for the defense of these American institutions of ours." He shook hands with the patients, patting the backs of those boys & girls whose hands could not be shaken...
Recently the Colonel has mostly warmed over old journalistic dishes in preparation for the arrival of the Marshall Field paper. Month ago the Tribune headlined an exposé of gambling in Cook County - an anti-climactic series which served chiefly to remind Chicagoans how long ago were the Tribune's successful anti-gangster campaigns in the '20s. The Colonel inaugurated a series of articles on points of interest in Chicago-a well-worn reminder that he loves the town in which he has so large a proprietary interest. (The trouble with New York, says the Colonel, is that...
With these names of Russian men who are dead and yet alive, Joseph Stalin reached to the heart of his nation. Familiar names summon understanding from shared remembrance; great names sometimes evoke greatness. Joseph Stalin wanted to remind his people what it is to be a Russian...
...There is still much to remind us of the days when we went from one building to another through dust and mud instead of on walks; when hurrying secretaries carried messages because there was only one telephone; of no electric lights in the dormitories. But now the Hospital is open and receiving patients and last Friday morning Dr. Gordon, Dr. Beeson, Dr. Scott, and Dr. Hawley made rounds for the first time," writes Dr. Gordon...
...instance, village supers clad in sackcloth creep among the trees, unable to make themselves heard through the wind as they chant: "Digging and delving, hedging and ditching, we pass. . . . Summer and winter, autumn and spring return. . . . All passes but we, all changes . . . but we remain forever the same. . . ." They remind you of Evelyn Waugh; yet in Mrs. Woolf's many-planed perspective they are also in truth the nameless human swarm...