Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though Jimmy was playing boogie 30 years ago and could make a fair claim to being its inventor, he and his compositions had been almost forgotten, even by the jazzophiles. Jimmy had never tried to remind them. He had hit the big time before he was 15, playing the Orpheum circuit, and even a command performance before Britain's King & Queen. Then he got interested in baseball, spent his days playing with the Chicago Ail-Americans and his nights playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved...
...first the packed House of Commons was disappointed. Listening M.P.s had to remind themselves that Ernie Bevin was making history. He read his speech from typescript, too rapidly, sometimes gobbling his words. Afterwards, in the lobbies, Laborites agreed that "Ernie was bloody awful" in his delivery. But the history was in what he said, not in how he said...
Next day, bespectacled, precise Ivan Matteo Lombardo bravely tried to remind his fellow Socialists that the lion, no matter how softly he purrs, is a carnivorous animal. "We must look to the Marshall Plan," he began quietly, "from an Italian point of view, not from that of the Cominform." His next words were drowned by cries of, "You are the Voice of-America...
...good time to look hard at the services of the CRIMSON to the Harvard community and to its own editors. As our newsmen-turned-author and our learned committees tirelessly remind us, our society needs now, more than even before, the services of a free and alert press. We look to the CRIMSON and we see at once the virtually assured circulation, the regular, if not munificent, income; we know that by time-honored custom the paper is free from censorship; we see a daily published by able young men in a community given over to the fermentation of ideas...
...final measure the building would contain a plaque bearing the names of all those men who gave their lives and would be outfitted with a memorial room to remind students using the building of its "basic purpose and origin...