Word: reproached
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...Snapped Charles M. O'Connor: "Why didn't the school committee come to the parents? Instead they took matters in their own hands and gave everybody the impression that terrible things went on." Echoed Mrs. Grace Whittredge: "Gossip! The reputation of our family in town is beyond reproach." Asked repeatedly to tell what her charges were, old Miss Smith let it be known that she had not investigated and would not press them in detail, but still wanted Miss Hallin to resign for "professional reasons." Students began to picket Miss Smith's house with such placards...
Dubya-Dubya was a spellbinder but his morals were not above reproach. Still, he taught Danny several things before the law cracked down on him. Danny's next refuge was with a well-to-do rancher's family. The two sons. Hank and Steve, became his pals, the daughter his sweetheart. When the boys went back to military school, Danny went with them. And there bad blood began to brew between Danny and Steve. It came to a head when they had a finish fight. Steve won; the same day he was killed in a polo game...
...Valencia that a Red anti-aircraft shell landed squarely on the quarterdeck of the British battleship Royal Oak, injuring four officers and a seaman. Not wishing to stir up pro-Valencian British Laborites, the British Admiralty made light of the whole affair. Declared an Admiralty official: "We might reproach the Loyalists for the awkward aiming of an anti-aircraft shell, but there is no question of malice. It was more or less...
...made a fine, and most appropriate selection for Woman of the Year, and what a sublime face, what a God-given charm, with a divine right to use it on king or commoner alike, has Wally. It approaches that of either the Madonna, or Mona Lisa herself. Who shall reproach the abdicated, uncrowned King of all hearts of all nations? For such a face, and such a love, would not any real man abdicate a thousand thrones, and reject a thousand crowns? With her love as his own, might not such a man take her in his arms and bear...
...Patrick Duncan. As though admonishing Mr. Duncan, but obviously admonishing King Edward, the Times referred to the office of Governor General thus: "It is a position-the position of the King's deputy no less than that of the King himself -that must be kept high above public reproach or ridicule and that is incomparably more important than the individual who fills...