Word: reproachers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...faith in hard work and sermonizing. He laid out his city, instituted communal economics, established a stream of immigration from the East and Europe by steamship and handcart caravans, drove the Mormons to make their wilderness blossom as a rose with a plentiful mixture of hard sense, humor, reproach and simple sincerity. He made friends with the Indians and fenced successfully with Washington. Under him, polygamy, previously furtive, became a public duty. Men took crones and pining spinsters as well as bevies of young virgins; Mormon theology was revised to show that Christ had had at least three wives. Brigham...
...effect that the Administration's attempt to collect the debts need not be taken as seriously as it sounded. Was Otto H. Kahn the cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches on the general subject of peace, goodwill. Did Congressman W. R. Green misstep? He had conferred with Finance Minister Caillaux of France, had told newspapermen France could not pay quickly. Or was the offender some unnamed great one who was rumored to have gone...
...drew the lady in the African river should be instructed in anatomy. With the air filled by anthropology Professors who discuss the "missing link" over the radio, nothing could be more priceless than the first picture in the magazine, a chip of the Old Sod. The "Prologue" is above reproach...
...congratulation for the opportunity now opening before him to devote himself to the congenial work of literary production. The volume of his achievement in this field is already considerable. As a writer of graceful verse and of a lucid prose always carrying a message of hopeful courage without reproach, he has a wide audience already assured...
Harvard is fortunately free of many of the restraints and restrictions against which Mr. Rood justly complains. Mob spirit and the dreadful "drive" are not as irresistible as in other colleges; yet even here they are all too powerful. When bitterness and reproach are hurled at the "authorities" for these and other defects it is well to remember that much of what is worst at Harvard, as in all other colleges, is caused by the materialistic philosophy of the undergraduates themselves. The student body itself tends to crush genius and exalt conformity...