Word: reprimand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge to act as an understudy of Providence and deliver pronouncements which are nothing but the expression of his private prejudices . . . reflecting a mixture of prejudice, naivete, ignorance and abuse of power difficult to match . . . not only merits the severest reprimand, but raises a grave question of his fitness to sit on the bench anywhere in America...
...Received their chief vicarious thrill of the week when David Lloyd George delivered before the Welsh Church Union in London a fiery and thoroughgoing reprimand to Christians...
...praise to Pickwick stages, and a friendly reprimand for not blowing their horns earlier and louder...
...thoroughgoing reprimand in order...
Later, Bishop Luther Wilson got up to read the Episcopal address whose substance had been prepared by the Board of Bishops but whose clear and strident phraseology was in large part his own. In this, there was a reprimand that applied to Dr. Sloan and exemplified the admirable Methodist point of view on the evolution bugaboo: "If the preacher assumes to answer every adversary of Christianity he will make the place a battlefield instead of a sheepfold...