Word: reprimanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trainer Belmont and his bushy-haired daughter sang songs about canaries. Then Trainer Belmont divulged a few professional secrets. A good way to reprimand a monkey is to bite it. But canaries must be guided by patience and love. A real singing bird must start his career at eight weeks, when a conscientious master will shut him in a dark room, teach him to imitate a master canary, a human whistle or some musical instrument. A canary that shows promise should practice three hours a day and by the end of a year should have its repertoire fully developed...
...looking at a graphic representation of the development of an American civilization, whether it is well done or not. As the writer is representing Harvard--which spends a good deal of its time delving into local college history and perpetuating local tradition,--he is certainly in no position to reprimand Dartmouth for having a mural which covers a much wider field--that of America...
General: Meaning . . . that plaintiff had been subject of a personal reprimand from the President of the United States...
...slogan originated with a raw bus boy who, when Janssen asked him to summon the head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...
...progressive organization which attempted a War Protest meeting on Widener steps yesterday morning has not yet learned that methods which obtain in Union Square fail sadly here. A Washington Square harangue will always be met with a certain derision in the Yard; bad grammar will ever meet tutorial reprimand: "I'm sure the Prince of Wales said 'doesn...