Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enforcer. The Al Capone and Waxie Gordon stories will remind readers past their 30s that Prohibition racketeers, large & small, had come to be an accepted part of most U.S. communities. To get Capone became almost an obsession with President Herbert Hoover. Said Hoover to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: "Remember, now; I want that man Capone in jail...
During the war, Shankar was forced to close the Culture Center which he built in Almora to remind India of its ancient dances. Now, at 48, he hopes to open another one. Shankar's crusade to give Indian music back to the Indians has not always been easy. For much of modern India, with its "hateful, rotten towns, its drinking and enjoying," he cares little. The Indian public doesn't always care for Shankar either, he admits. It thinks his art is often "too high-no cheap songs," says Shankar, "no cheap jokes...
...vote for Thurmond because Eiscuhower isn't running. And that winds up the poll's comic output, except that I forgot to say that Calvin Coolidge also got a vote, and just in case even this master stroke of wit leaves you glum, it at least should remind you that when Dorothy Parker heard that Coolidge had died, she asked "How can they tell...
...Todd is as shrewd as most people think, he can still save his box office. He has the elements of a money maker. He has the exciting dancing of Kathryn Lee. He has the songs of Jimmy McHugh which, if they remind you that you have heard them somewhere before, still prompt you to want to hear them again. That is saying a lot for modern show tunes. He has Irene Rich for the female lead. He has a million lovely girls and two million sponge rubber falsies. Most important, he has two weeks in Boston. In this time...
...dominant factor in the standards striven for. Certainly tradition is present everywhere, and a conscious attempt is made to impress the incoming Plebe with its importance. Not only the collection of battle flags in the Chapel or the many statues and monuments to the dead are there to remind him of "the long, grey line" of Cadets that have preceded him, but such customs as the "Plebe system" itself contribute to the total effect of being one with the past...