Word: chide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steeves's words were greeted with howls of "Shame! Shame!" Up rose B. C.'s Premier Thomas D. Pattullo to chide her-and incidentally to prove that antitotalitarian nations must adopt semi-totalitarian methods to achieve their ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member's attitude, and appeal that no other member of this House give similar utterances. It is fortunate she is living in a country where tolerance is enjoyed. I doubt if she would be allowed such latitude in her native Holland. If such words are again uttered, I shall have to advise...
Undergraduates frequently chide their elders. More often than not their chidings are ignored or their presumptions are smugly set aside as adolescent insolence. We are not certain, however, that either device will serve in the case of the Harvard Crimson's challenge to its own president and other intellectual leaders, as well as religious spokesmen...
...Presidency in June Alf Landon had appeared just once in the national eye. That was on the hot July evening he made his safe & sane acceptance speech in Topeka. Since then his prolonged absence from the headlines had prompted the pressagents of the Democratic National Committee to chide the pressagents of the Republican National Committee with having failed to mention the GOPresidential nominee for a whole week. Undisturbed by this critical clamor over his whereabouts, Governor Landon stayed on at Estes Park, nursed a cold that left him a painful trace of pleurisy...
...often under the leadership of unctuous, trombone-playing Homer Alvan Rodeheaver. Beforehand, C. E.'s Vice President William Hiram Foulkes had written in The Presbyterian: "These Endeavorers are a colorful, cheerful crowd. They march with badges and banners and with singing hearts. If any one is inclined to chide them because at times they appear a bit too noisy, let him remember that it is a 'joyful noise' that they are making, and that they are making it 'unto the Lord...
...that when they fail to see sense in his labors, and thus he can, without a twinge of conscience, urge them to come out for the next competition. The candidate can enjoy the taunts of editors, he can submit to their criticisms of his stories,--for some will chide and criticize--for inside he has felt the thrill of knowing some thing before the others, of meeting strange people in strange places...