Word: reproacher
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Instantly the Commissioner leaped into angry action. He jumped up on the platform beside the two culprits and, his voice shrilling with indignation and reproach, exclaimed: ". . . this morning you have two traitors [indicating Opperman and Foran] before you, two contemptible and disloyal men, men I can't find words strong enough to denounce! Judas betrayed for 30 pieces of silver! They are worse than Judas! They not only betrayed their trust but tried to put the blame on another member of the department...
...News Letter makes an unnecessary apology for its reproach by stating that the CRIMSON is merely spreading the news of the Debating Council Plan. On the contrary, the CRIMSON is taking a militant attitude in an endeavor to arouse other colleges to present the many facts known only to them...
...shoot the piano player! Il fait de son mieux. He's doing the best he can. That, gentlemen," he added confidentially to his somewhat mystified hearers, "is an American argument. That is what they used to say in American frontier towns. Voyons, Messieurs! With what do you reproach me? The only two laws which have been passed since my Government came into office [TIME, Nov. 11] had the support of five-sixths of the Chamber. Shall I make another argument? 'Don't you dare disown me when I bring you your own babies under...
...Thieving as a Moslem," is a common term of reproach among Bengal Hindus. 'Vain as a Babu,"* is the prompt response of Bengal Mohammedans. Last week Calcutta's Mohammedan quarter shook with Homeric laughter at the latest, greatest example of Babu vanity. Potent among Bengal market-gardeners is the wealthy Roy Mukerji Das, who employs 2,000 laborers in his truck gardens, holds a virtual monopoly of the Calcutta vegetable market. Last week, pondering his own potency, the great Roy Mukerji Das sent a letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application...
...celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb the conditioned reflexes of some six score dogs, kept there for experimental purposes...