Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost, but not quite, everyone in Washington was all steamed up and happy about the historic visit. Senator Borah suggested that someone should remind King George about Britain's $85.000,000 War debt payment which she is defaulting as usual this month. California's Senator Downey said he would be too busy with "American business" to join his colleagues in receiving Their Majesties in the Capitol rotunda. (The spot picked for this ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative...
...Country. Leaving the wheatlands for the cow country, the royal train stopped briefly next morning at Medicine Hat, Alberta, where the Queen became so interested in a girl band from Big Sandy, Montana, 350 miles away, that the King was obliged to remind her that the train was waiting. At Calgary 200,000 Canadians and U. S. citizens up for a good time gave the royal couple a rousing western welcome. Two thousand Blackfeet, Sarcees, Piegans and Stonys whooped and hollered in their most intimidating manner while their chiefs conferred on George VI a new title: "Great Chief Albino...
...being lost in the shuffle. First, it is published by a university press; second, its title makes it sound like a book on botany. But Purslane is worth a top place on any publisher's list. The first novel of a North Carolina folk-play writer, Purslane will remind most readers of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' South Moon Under. Unsentimental, authentic, humorous, moving, it tells a tale of a North Carolina hill family at the turn of the century...
Three weeks ago rambunctious Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina introduced a resolution to send William Griffin abroad as a special envoy to remind European nations of their debts. Nobody paid much attention. Fortnight ago Congressman Chauncey W. Reed of Illinois introduced a concurrent resolution in the House. Washington wondered what it was all about, why a pressagent was needed to report William Griffin's progress. Last week half-a-dozen Senators, including two members of the potent Foreign Relations Committee, Georgia's Walter George and Kansas' Arthur Capper, plumped for the resolution. Washington...
...reflection on the cast, who really couldn't help themselves. They have placed themselves in the hands of a director who through ignorance violates the spirit of college theatricals. Their fellow clubmen have given them a fine score, good lyrics, a passable book and amusing stage sets; if they remind Mr. Lilley that he is not directing for Earl Carroll, they can make a good show out of it before it hits Boston. Even if they don't it will still be fair enough...