Word: reproacheing
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...After an earnest scrutiny I have decided," wrote Old Paul wistfully, "to stand for reelection. . . . Should I not be elected, the reproach of having abandoned my post at a difficult time will be spared...
...become a much broader one than the mere determination of the justice of Japan's grievance, and it is unquestionably up to the powers acting in cooperation to take drastic action to curb the Japanese immediately. Otherwise it may be too late, and the world will have to reproach itself with the greatest calamity since the dark days of July and August...
Meanwhile the Federal Government did not raise a finger against the Murray order in Oklahoma, but, instead, pointed one of scorn and reproach at Texas and its unregulated oil production. The new East Texas field was bringing in close to 600.000 bbl. per day. Operators there were selling their product at 10? and 15? per bbl., so low that Oklahoma refiners could buy and transport it to their plants at less than the local price (50?) which Governor Murray's order was designed to double. Declared Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon...
...stage versions of music appeared to have found highest recognition when Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge invited her to give the opening program at the Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington last week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music programs are usually above reproach. But the Lewisohn dancers (who still retain the name of "the Neighborhood Playhouse") offended many a purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes...
...wider recognition that now is the time to think and act for the upbuilding of society would bring about more anniversary celebrations of this progressive type. Incidentally, it would wipe out the reproach sometimes attaching to ultraconservative organizations which had their inception in the deeds of revolutionaries. That familiar saying, "The radicals of one generation are the conservatives of the next," would then be less often applicable...