Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plutarch Jr. Sirs: ... I consider the department of LETTERS the best thing in the magazine. This department individualizes the oddities of people and serves to remind me that the people among whom I live have their counterparts in other parts of the world. Prom my point of view this department might be extended a little without losing its flavor...
...British Government's reception was an evening function in the Great Hall of the House of Lords. Premier Baldwin, pipe in pocket, fanned the fires of Anglo-American friendship. Ambassador Houghton sought to bank the same fires with the broad hint: "I would remind my countrymen that good men are scarce and that they will soon be needed at home...
...been played, imitated, repeated over most of the civilized world. The idea came from a tradition of the autocracy of Tsar Paul I. Absentminded, the Tsar walked off the parade ground one afternoon, forgetting to give the command to halt. Because he was so cruel, nobody dared remind him. The soldiers went marching on to somewhere in Siberia before he remembered and ordered them to return. They arrived with beards. The Parade based on this legend is the most widely known of the Chauve Souris repertory...
...castle. Said the Kaiser, insult ingly: "You too belong to the rascals of the Foreign Office who cheated and lied to me throughout my reign." Replied Baron von Maltzan: "I beg pardon, but as far as I am concerned I do not deserve this reproach. May I respectfully remind you of the observations I made to you in 1914 on my return from Peking when I pointed out Germany's wrong policy in Eastern Asia. Furthermore it was I who, as representative of the Foreign Office on Germany's Eastern front, as early as the summer...
...emotions to a spiritual emphasis, soi the maturity of her senses has brought her to dwell upon qualities of air, shadow and faint fragrance in her objective scenes. When she paints a mesa, she remembers the cloud mesa above it. Two bronzed runners passing over some sand dunes remind her of "the shadows that eagles cast in their strong, unhurried flight...