Word: chidings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that she would marry him, if he really wished it. The Director of the Imperial Household Board was dispatched to the Shoda house formally to request Michiko's hand for Akihito. The news was joyfully received by most of the press and public. Editorials took the opportunity to chide some palace officials for cloistering the imperial family, for having tended in recent years to lower a "chrysanthemum curtain" between the throne and the people. One newspaper boldly declared: "Michiko-san may be a commoner, but it is the crown prince who is getting the best of the bargain...
...TIME reported, did not chide...
From more than 100 Sunday newspapers last week tumbled fat and gaudy magazine supplements devoted to a subject that to many dailies was once a bad word: TV. Newspaper publishers still fret over the economic challenge of TV, and critics chide it for challenging the intellect too little. Nevertheless, on the theory that 37 million TV-owning families can't be wrong, newspapers today are giving TV far more space than they gave to movies in Hollywood's heyday-just as the average family spends far more of its time with TV than it ever spent in movie...
Ervine's view is both more intimate and more level than that of earlier Shavian biographers, who usually presented him as a fabulous monster. Ervine is able to discuss his immense shyness, to chide him when necessary for the "tosh" that often came from his "spinsterly mind," to assert, against all previous evidence, that he was generous in money matters, and to dispose of Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor's assertion that "Shaw was never unhappy." Shaw's loveless childhood, drink-ridden father and hungry adolescence make it quite clear that few university dons have started life with...
When Gruen finished, his audience of Fort Worth community leaders enthusiastically appointed study committees. They were so impressed by the Texas-like immensity of the project that none stopped to chide him for an undiplomatic slip: his report had said that "Fort Worth now finds itself not keeping pace with Dallas...