Word: reminding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want to say anything unpleasant. Let me remind you, however, that before you were given the franchise it was urged that woman suffrage would bring purity and cleanliness into public office...
...present success, worldly, scholarly, or spiritual, as the case may be, of those who were graduated in the nineties is used as a refutation to the claim that modern students are no better off than their fathers. We would remind those who hold that argument that the problems facing a young graduate upon entering a profession or business have become increasingly complicated and difficult and that consequently the preparation must become increasingly enlightening. There is also the probability, which we cannot pass over without mention, that the old outlook which seldom extended beyond the family or small community...
...This man who may remind you of a pompous schoolmaster is Hiram Johnson. He used to be a rip-roaring Progressive Republican. He still votes with them, but he seems to be an extinct volcano. The old gentleman there, with a kindly face-no, not that one; he is Frederick Gillett, who used to be Speaker of the House and has now retired to the dignified bosom of the Senate as a reward for his long and faithful labor in the Republican cause. The other one farther back is Senator Cummins, who used to be a Progressive Republican...
...suitable opportunity is offered, present these two American apples to their gracious Majesties, the King and the Queen of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes [Jugoslavia], to remind them of generous American friendship...
...here is another gift, which please deliver to the little Crown Prince [Peter of Jugoslavia]. It is an American baseball, a symbol of everything which spells joy and happiness to the heart of the American boy. It will remind the Crown Prince that little American boys love him and love the boys of Jugoslavia...