Word: reproacher
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...Superman is now in a really tough spot that even he can't get out of. His patriotism is above reproach. As the mightiest, fightingest American, he ought to join up. But he just can't. In the combat services he would lick the Japs and Nazis in a wink, and the war isn't going to end that soon. On the other hand, he can't afford to lose the respect of millions by failing to do his bit or by letting the war drag...
...difference in adjectives is that pinko is descriptive of political coloration and stinko is just a term of reproach...
...trumpet, will be featured at the Beachcomber in Providence on Sunday. If you remember his work of the old Hiekery House days, you'll want to go and hear him... little Holiday's recent coupling of Georgia on My Mind and Let's Do It, is certainly above reproach, yet Billie just isn't the convincing singer she was a few years back. Columbia has been putting out a number of albums recently. Why don't they get up a Billie Holiday album which would include musicians like Benny Goodman, Toddy Wilson, Lester Young, Jo Jones, Buck Clayton, Cozy Cole...
...Whatever the next ten years may bring, I don't want to reproach myself for having made bad use of the breathing space thus offered me by fate." His journal is, accordingly, a record of beauty and of pleasure, intensified and at the same time sobered...
...answer is: No, it will not have been enough. If England goes down, there will, of course, be nothing but British graves to reproach me. But if she doesn't go down and rises, staggered and decimated, from out her bomb-craters and bloodbath, then there will be English men and women and children to face me. Shall I be able to face them? Again the answer...