Word: reproacheing
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...door of his sick room, spying upon a weary President, pursuing him like a deer set upon by snarling hounds, are now in the shadow of disgrace.' Applause cut me short. Then I went on: 'Are resting under the blight and stigma of a Nation's shame and reproach'? again I was interrupted by applause. It was Senator Fall, now the centre of the oil investigation, who visited President Wilson's bedroom during his illness as a member of the Senate Committee to learn whether Mr. Wilson's sickness had affected his mind...
...Those resting under the blight and stigma of a nation's shame and reproach...
...politician's private life, for example, must be above reproach. Otherwise he may be connected with some scandal which suddenly blasts his career. Lawyers, even by connection with great business interests become unavailable as candidates for office...
...Sometimes subsidies are given direct. More often journalists have secretly been in receipt of money in return for their supposed influence. The system has been long established and perfectly familiar, but is none the less utterly reprehensible. There is no excuse for it. It brings journalism under suspicion and reproach. It will be a happy day for Continental Europe when it can point to newspapers that are self-supporting and independent and known by all to have opinions that cannot be bought...
...Harvard undergraduate; the latest news from New Haven only serves once more to emphasize the popularity of minor sports in other centers As a result of all this, these other colleges are prominent in those very sports, which, to an extreme devotee of athletic success, have long been a reproach to the University...