Word: reprimand
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Admitted to U. S. citizenship in a Hollywood courtroom, German-born Cinemactress Luise Rainer jumped up & down, clapped her hands, cut a couple of delighted capers. Then she risked a reprimand from the U. S. Flag Association by wrapping herself in a U. S. flag, having her picture taken. To a meeting of 200 teachers, sardonic Author-Professor John Erskine declared that the only subject taught correctly in the schools today is athletics...
...last week the Democratic high command at Washington got down to them with Frank Hague, perpetual mayor of Jersey City and boss of populous Hudson County. So sharp is the contrast between ironfisted, authoritarian Boss Hague and the libertarian New Deal that last summer Franklin Roosevelt felt obliged to reprimand the Boss publicly, if anonymously, for his suppression of civil liberties in Jersey City (TIME, July 4). The Department of Justice even went to the extent of sending G-Men to investigate Socialist Norman Thomas' complaint about being bums-rushed out of Jersey City. (Although the State Supreme Court...
Monitors are liable to sharp reprimand when a student who is reported absent is able to prove to the satisfaction of the Dean's office that he was present and in his right seat...
...Judge Wilson refused a pregnant prisoner permission to leave jail and have her baby in a hospital. The Los Angeles Record ran his picture captioned "Dumbbell in Ermine." For the Record, there was no judicial reprimand...
Said the prosecutor in Salisbury County police court last week: "It may take 1,000 years for Stonehenge to regain its old weathered appearance." Said the court: $5 fine for each culprit, costs of trial and repairs, total $95. Said the commander at Larkhill, keeping a straight face: official reprimand...