Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fervent, florid Senator James A. Reed of Missouri and his more or less silent colleagues continued their investigation of campaign expenses. At one point, Senator Reed was at pains to remind people that this dredging, though begun among slushy millions in Pennsylvania, would be extended to "every State in the union." The next state will be Illinois. The committee will repair to Chicago this month to plumb charges made last week by busy-buzzing Senator Thaddeus Caraway that three or more millions were spent on candidates...
...artists remind one of Baalam and his ass. For once more may we say. "And the Lord opened the month of the ass." But no, we cannot lay as the door of the Almighty such a gross, barbarons, wanton picture capable of origin only in the brain of a moron. For if Lampy can find no other material but scorn of the Jewish students in the college and the aspirations and religious ideals of the Jewish race, then it is quite easy to understand the general attitude towards the publication. B. Wantman...
...institutions are as far a why from the just balance, the true proportion here as they are in other questions of social benefit. One can but remind that the minutiae of no one or even several subjects should be allowed to obscure a complete and philosophical out took; that memory work should never consist of transient facts and should never outrun the capacity and training aimed at their utilization. The student should not be competled to stack his has in too overflowing forks-full...
...pride and prejudice have forced this, together with a large amount of real fear, into the darkness and away from the light of common interest and community research. And the very fact that this has so long held true must-remind many that this is not a question which can be settled in any easy or immediate manner...
...understand that they are soon to parody me, or rather my other self, not the holiday self who plays usurper. And the parody does not become them, for as one fool to another I would remind them that we fools must stick together, or be stuck apart, like so many flies in the glue-paper atmosphere of Cambridge-in-exam-time...