Word: reprimands
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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...
Nazis busied themselves during the week at the expense of the Jews in the Bavarian town of Gunzenhausen. It began when storm troopers piled into a Jewish saloon to reprimand an "Aryan" at the bar. In the excitement a Jew spat on a storm trooper. He got away somehow, fled from house to house, finally hanged himself. Meanwhile the whole town had turned out for a finish fight. A little racial war rammed up and down the streets of Gunzenhausen for hours. Soon the jail was jammed with prisoners, all Jews, and the wounded of both sides crawled home...
...Crackpot!" echoed many a tough East Side urchin as Teacher walked into her classroom next day. Before long it was plain that, whether or not 1,500 of them were insane, all 36,000 of the city's teachers were hopping mad. Indignant mass-meetings called for a reprimand, for proof, for Dr. Altman's dismissal, for an investigation of his competence by the New York Academy of Medicine. "He sees insanity in everybody," cried Dr. Abraham Lefkowitz of the Teachers Union...