Word: jeremiads
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...recent overtime pay controversy, when the A.F. of L. resorted to paid newspaper advertisements to explain its case, lit a fire under labor's radio thinkers. Meanwhile, NBC Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn had worked himself up to a jeremiad against the unions. The unions thereby acquired another talking point, if they wanted one, in their case for a labor interval on the radio...
...years Sidney Dark quietly edited the Church Times. He was known as an Anglo-Catholic and a mild socialist, but no one expected him to celebrate his resignation this year with a jeremiad like The Church, Impotent or Triumphant? "Now," said he, "I [can] say exactly what I believe with no polite reservations...
...that the cause of all the unrest has been the alleged one-sidedness of the Act and the incompetence of the Board which administers it. From the time that the Liberty League persuaded fifty of their most talented legal counsel to declare the Act unconstitutional to the most recent jeremiad of the National Association of Manufacturers, the hostility of an important segment of employers to collective bargaining has remained unabated. And it has resulted in the use of spies, munitions, special company police, bought newspapers and every disreputable device that the ingenuity of law-abiding business could provide...
...count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder, she stayed up half the night filling gaily bound notebooks with illegible maxims intended to be sold at Woolworth's. A typical letter of her last days reels off to her daughter a fearful jeremiad of grievances, dark suspicions, comments on the latest trunk murder, cries out: "Oh! how I admire that man Hitler!" She was, said Kipling, "the most wonderful person I have ever met. ... It is outside all my experience, and of a type to which I know no duplicate...
...Great American Rudeness," i.e., the custom that a hostess serves herself first-at which Mrs. Post hurls a five-page jeremiad, denouncing it as a vulgar survival from the poisoning Borgia...