Word: chides
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Avid for news himself, he was quick to chide when replies were tardy. ("No letter, Goodykin, none today yet?") He came so close to treating his talented wife like an aimless birdbrain that Jane once chided him for writing "as if I were some nice child, writing ... to its Godpapa." But occasionally, Carlyle came close to sharing an idea with his "wee wifiekin," as when he was moved by the human and physical blight of the Industrial Revolution on a South Wales town: "The town might be ... one of the prettiest places in the world...
...light is spent, E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding...
...years since have made Mrs. Roosevelt (to the U.S. delegation she is simply "Mrs. R.") a sagacious and useful member in U.N. struggles. When she feels called upon to chide the Russians, she never treats them as baleful bogeymen but simply as naughty-and rather ignorant-boys. She does not hide her amusement at the fact that the most exalted Soviet official dares not speak privately with a Westerner without another Russian beside him to eavesdrop...
Died. Hans Heinrich Dieckhoff, 67, Adolf Hitler's last Ambassador to the U.S.; after long illness; in Lenzkirch, Germany. Distantly related by marriage to Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, chunky, affable, Roman Catholic Dieckhoff was required, as his first public act in the U.S., to chide Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago for referring to Hitler as "that Austrian paper hanger." After 18 months in the U.S., Diplomat Dieckhoff was recalled by the Führer in 1938 and never came back...
...Since his mother had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to go to work, Freddy's father would serve him breakfast in bed. "Sometimes," recalls the teacher, "he'd be barely awake when he came for his lesson at 2 in the afternoon. I used to chide him for being so lazy while his mother worked so hard. 'Well,' he would answer, 'she likes...