Word: reproacheing
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...immortal novelist who once aroused censure and reproach in the United States for drawing American character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
...British Embassy building on Connecticut Avenue, Washington, is to be sold. Sir Esme Howard, who recently made the announcement, said: "When I walk through these rooms the building seems to reproach me." And well it might; for however dingy it looks from the outside, the interior is indeed beautiful and imposing. A liveried footman opens the door and in front is a heavy blue carpeted hall or reception room with a massive staircase to the rear, down which Queen Victoria, seated, gazes from the enormous dimensions of a gilt frame. To the left are two drawing rooms and the ballroom...
...faith in hard work and sermonizing. He laid out his city, instituted communal economics, established a stream of immigration from the East and Europe by steamship and handcart caravans, drove the Mormons to make their wilderness blossom as a rose with a plentiful mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well as bevies of young virgins; Mormon theology was revised to show that Christ had had at least three wives. Brigham...
...effect that the Administration's attempt to collect the debts need not be taken as seriously as it sounded. Was Otto H. Kahn the cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches on the general subject of peace, goodwill. Did Congressman W. R. Green misstep? He had conferred with Finance Minister Caillaux of France, had told newspapermen France could not pay quickly. Or was the offender some unnamed great one who was rumored to have gone...
...drew the lady in the African river should be instructed in anatomy. With the air filled by anthropology Professors who discuss the "missing link" over the radio, nothing could be more priceless than the first picture in the magazine, a chip of the Old Sod. The "Prologue" is above reproach...