Word: reproached
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...Rome is an undisputed descendant of the Roman General Quintus Fabius Maximus, "The Delayer" (Third Century B. C.). The family of the late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both Royal and Papal. There are, in fact, dozens, scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night club, should have announced her marriage to Count Pepito di Albertini of Rome. Few of Miss Baker's race would have...
...Besides, there have been manifestations which it would be criminal for us to ignore. What must reproach democracy for is that it creates one type of man and really believes that this man exists. This leads to atrocious disillusion, tragedies, butcheries...
...curriculum of all good colleges, and are regularly taken by conscientious students, simply because they fill a definitive need. The label of "snap" in our course surely did not connote that we considered it unworthy, undesirable or even unessential. Spectator does not use it as a term of reproach, most certainly does not advocate that snaps be tightened or their teachers be jacked...
...centuries the very slow progress of morality through processes of natural evolution has proved a constant reproach to the more virtuous and earnest members of the human race. Law, persecution, and reform have all been tried as experiments for forcing people, to measure up to the proper moral standards, but have alike proved failures in the attempt at wholesale elevation of human morality...
Utterances: "Hunger, cold rags, hard work, contempt, suspicion, unjust reproach, are disagreeable; but debt is infinitely worse than them all. ... If you have but 50c and can get no more for a week, buy a peck of corn, parch it and live on it, rather than owe any man a dollar...