Word: reproacheing
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Yesterday Mrs. Simpson traveled to Versailles in the King's car and stayed with her American friend Lady Mendl. Oxford, always conservative, thinks the whole affair is a bad show but does not reproach the King. The general comment is "Ship Mrs. Simpson back home...
...word "squaw" in describing the mother of the heroine. I believe that this word means "woman" in the Algonquin language, but in most other tribes it was unknown, until introduced by whites. Among the Teton Sioux, of whom I am one, the word is a term of reproach applied to loose women. It was acquired from whites who used it freely in speaking slightingly of Indian women...
...President's cry of the Founding Fathers: ''Theirs were not the gods of things as they were, but the gods of things as they ought to be. They used new means and new models to build new structures." Nor could any but the rudest lips reproach the admirers of Franklin Roosevelt and Thomas Jefferson for the cheer they sent up when one declared of the other: ''He was a great gentleman. He was a great commoner. The two are not incompatible...
...Whatever the lessons of the past seven months, we must be prepared to learn them and profit by them in a spirit of realism, keeping steadily before us what remains the constant purpose of British Foreign Policy-the maintenance of peace. We have nothing to reproach ourselves with, nothing to apologize...
...Author A. S. M. Hutchinson, who five years ago let himself go all swimmy in print over the nursery innocence of his infant boy (The Book of Simon, TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Last week Antony gave readers a better example of paternal pride. But Antony Knebworth will never reproach his noble author for saying fatherly things about him, because Antony is a posthumous biography. Antony was killed in an airplane crash in 1933, when...