Word: reproacher
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...become so tiresome to reproach Boston for its constant repression of creative work, that we are beginning to surrender in despair. For a long while we have tried to argue that Boston was not as bad as it seemed in the public press, but developments of recent months inevitably lead us to the hypothesis that not only is Boston as bad as painted, but unpleasantly worse...
...took an artist to his room. The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made,--one by the pencil of a student in his class, another in oils by a lady who had followed him on the street...
...exceptions taken by the letter appearing in these columns yesterday to the CRIMSON's objections to the plan of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature which sets the written divisional examination in Junior year do not, the CRIMSON believes, reproach the validity of the main objection. This was, briefly, that to set an examination which shall serve solely as a voucher of understanding sufficient to permit intensive specialization makes the examination only something to be got out of the way as easily as possible...
...than literary discoveries; economic and political changes have come so thick and fast during recent year that they have not yet lost the fascination of novelty for the public, but the existence of such a vast expanse out side the mental bounds of any civilization will remain a constant reproach to its leaders until it be included...
Purists rejoiced that Viscountess Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe-le-Soken possesses a silver pass key by means of which she may assure herself at any hour that the conduct of her tenants is still above reproach...