Word: admonishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...huge bones of a prehistoric monster, to feed to his dog. Recurring showers of bottles from the 64-story Skyride Tower grew so alarming that the elevators were finally stopped. Dancing feet stomped into ruin landscaped lawns. Into Lake Michigan went benches and tables, and when policemen sought to admonish the revelers, they tossed the policemen in, too. All through the night until dawn ambulances screamed through the grounds, carrying more than 100 victims of good-natured rowdyism to hospitals. If the Fair had opened on the morrow, the damage would have been $150,000 or more...
...Good Friday the Reich Bishop offered those pastors who rebelled at the imposition of Nazidom upon their church an iron olive branch: "I admonish them to abandon their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
...when John F. Hylan, then Mayor of New York, appointed him special deputy police commissioner, to launch an advertising campaign against street accidents. He invented Aunty J. Walker, a miniature policewoman with a night stick and fetching bonnet, and put her in the corner of his posters to admonish pedestrians to stop jay walking...
...Colorado River-upon which work has not yet been begun owing to the discontent of Arizonans over the proposed distribution of water and power among Arizona and six of her neighbor States. Mr. Coolidge, having spent some time on the Boulder Dam plans, took occasion to admonish Arizonans as 'follows: "It might be helpful when you get home if you would take down your Bible and read that portion which says 'Agree with thine adversary quickly...