Word: reproacher
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...Briand addressed the League in such militant, 100% French fashion as last week. Usually he exhales the grand hymn of International Concord. Last week he snapped like an angry Frenchman at enemy Germans: "It is very easy to make fine speeches about peace, and I know I have been reproached by my political enemies for producing words instead of deeds. I do not say that the German Chancellor is one of these reproachers. His speech was very eloquent. Still I could not help feeling that some such reproach underlay...
...begun. No athlete will any longer conceal his possession of a good brain and a taste for reading. No student need slink apologetically across the quad, feeling himself useless to his college and his university. No publisher or theatrical manager will dare to use "intellectual" as a term of reproach; and no smart, uneducated worldling will sneer at the "academic" futility of the university man. But in order that the Harvard-Yale idea may have its full effect in England there must be visible rewards for prowess in the new forms of sport. Blues and half-Blues must be awarded...
Expenditure for this kind of knowledge is made in the precious coin of time. Few things in college are more difficult than the budgeting of knowledge and self appraisal. Two who have reached extreme conclusions about outside activity may sit nearby in classes, each a living reproach of the other, and each with an albatross about his own neck. What is amiable weakness in a Senior is a fault in them. They have dared to dogmatize, where to dogmatize is intellectually fatal...
...great, sad eyes of liquid, melting brown turned last week in mute reproach upon the President of Austria, good Dr. Michael Hainisch, kindly, snowy-bearded and well beloved...
Lowden led the field on some of the early ballots in the Republican convention, but thereafter faded rapidly, as the risks of carrying the onus of the Lowden campaign budget became increasingly self-evident. Beyond reproach on the score of private honor. Lowden saw the nomination lost because the honor of his candidacy was in dispute...