Word: reproacher
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...sell or surrender Russia's rights in the C. E. R. to any third power without China's consent. Nettled, the Soviet Embassy spokesman in Nanking snapped: "China has for years been unable to exercise her rights or duties regarding the C. E. R. She cannot properly reproach us. We consider this Chinese protest a mere formality...
...Grant's superior tactics and determination. He brushes aside Grant's heavy losses: "Criticism of Grant for incurring heavy casualty lists in utterly destroying his adversary refutes itself." Biographer McCormick lays many a florid wreath at his paladin's feet: "A hero, without fear and without reproach, who needed neither the panoply of war nor the customary mannerisms of command to buoy up his iron will." He sums up his admiration by declaring Grant the superior of Napoleon himself...
...reproach among hogs to be a bit of a swine and the influence of the Corn-Hog money dispensation reflects itself very clearly in retail trade which points upward for the next several weeks. Despite a sharp decline in grain prices caused by a drop in sterling and the favorable crop reports in Canada and the Argentine, farm stocks have been very buoyant, which indicates that fodder for the farmer from the Government silo is as efficacious as high prices for his products...
Bankers big & little know perfectly well that their titular leader at this time should be above reproach, unjustified though the reproach may be. But many feel Banker Hecht's long devotion to ABA affairs should be duly rewarded. No one denies that the swart little Bavarian from Ansbach with the slick black hair and the cropped mustache is a banker born. After a short training in Chicago he went to New Orleans, was a bank president at 33. But whether the ABA will break tradition to pass by Mr. Hecht at 49 is likely to be a hot question when...
...committee of students stung by the reproach of your editorial of the fourteenth, has set afoot plans for bringing German films to Harvard. This group, though admitting that the Harvard undergraduate is "tatlos, wenn er denkt," has takes good care that he shall not be "blind, wenn er handelt," by securing the aid of a diligent and experienced patroness, and by investigating carefully the requirements of the undertaking...