Word: admonish
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...Gentlemen," he used to admonish departing seniors, "get capital...
...because they have given the Germans quite a punching around in the Sylt, Altmark and Spee affairs. Britons are not so prone as the restless French (see p. 20) to regard the war and their Government as passive. Nevertheless, War Secretary Oliver Stanley felt constrained to admonish domestic and foreign spectators who want more gore in World War II. "We intend to fight in our own way and not in their way," he snorted. "How easy it is, from the ringside, after a comfortable dinner, to urge other people to hit and go on hitting each other...
...also true that the Czech Government had shown signs of disobedience to the Nazis. A crackdown, figured the Führer, would do much to admonish Poland and Hungary which have-in the former by rioting, in the latter by upsetting a cabinet-recently shown themselves unsympathetic to Nazidom...
Robert de Lany plays the role of the Choragus, while Miss Margaret White will play the part of Alcestis maid servant. Robert Nichols is the father, Pheres, and manservant Walter B. Perkins '41 will admonish Hercules...
...rest, "The Pontiff stirred. His face was grave with resentment. . . . 'The Lord has endowed you with many good qualities, Salotti,' decreed the Holy Father in acid and peremptory terms, 'but he denied you a clinical eye.' " Likewise, to a monk who made bold to admonish Pius XI to spare his legs: "Do not be so engrossed about my lameness. . . . God and myself take that responsibility...