Word: admonishes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week the policemen on duty in Holy Cross Cemetery at Malden. Mass., had to admonish, direct and keep moving the great throngs who came to touch the lowly tomb of Patrick J. Power, a Catholic Priest dead for 60 years and now, to the faithful, a potent worker of healing miracles (TIME...
...prayer, last court of appeal in Episcopalian disputes, which says: "... No man shall be ... suffered to execute any of the said functions [of the ministry] . . . except ... he hath had Episcopal consecration or ordination." Said the bishop's letter: "I must earnestly beg you, and I do hereby officially admonish you, not to carry out your plans for the above-mentioned communion service at St. George's Church." Furthermore, the bishop characterized the policy of the Christian Unity League as "a strangely mistaken and a clearly disruptive one. The members of the Christian Unity League will...
...grieve only that your youth does not permit you to go with me. If I die, I admonish you always to be a slave to duty, to your country, to your sister, your two aunts and the stepmother who has served you as a mother. This must be to you a sacred duty, and to it you must consecrate your life...
...David Lloyd George was from an early date "a thorn in the King's side." The King had frequently to complain of one of Mr. George's speeches, according to Sir Sidney, and prevailed upon the late Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on one occasion to admonish the little Welshman to "avoid such a tone in future...
...McBride, as active lobbyist of the largest volunteer auxiliary the U. S. government possesses, will now have to buttonhole politicians and admonish them himself. Dr. McBride, a United Presbyterian preacher and long head of the Anti-Saloon League in woefully wet Illinois, will now have to battle singlehanded the causes of "crooks and bribery," which U. S. Prohibition Commissioner Lowman says are "rampant" in the Federal enforcement system. Last week, Dr. McBride was known to be picking a band of dry workers to rush into southern and midwestern states whence ominous sentiment has been issuing in favor...