Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...politician's private life, for example, must be above reproach. Otherwise he may be connected with some scandal which suddenly blasts his career. Lawyers, even by connection with great business interests become unavailable as candidates for office...
...Sometimes subsidies are given direct. More often journalists have secretly been in receipt of money in return for their supposed influence. The system has been long established and perfectly familiar, but is none the less utterly reprehensible. There is no excuse for it. It brings journalism under suspicion and reproach. It will be a happy day for Continental Europe when it can point to newspapers that are self-supporting and independent and known by all to have opinions that cannot be bought...
...Harvard undergraduate; the latest news from New Haven only serves once more to emphasize the popularity of minor sports in other centers As a result of all this, these other colleges are prominent in those very sports, which, to an extreme devotee of athletic success, have long been a reproach to the University...
...film version of La Garçone French novel by Victor Margueritte that earned its author's expulsion from the Legion of Honor for presenting " a false and slanderous picture of modern French womanhood," was completed, complained against, viewed by the police and found above reproach. It is now charged that the objectionable scenes were secretly filmed and will be interpolated in copies of the film destined for South America and Germany. The Paris press urges detection of these scenes by customs officials and their suppression as "very harmful propaganda against France...
...issued a statement, which included, among other things, the following sentence: "The tendency during the last few years to disregard the restrictions of ordinary courtesy, the common ownership of public property, and the privileges of citizenship has of late grown to such proportions as to be not only a reproach to the University and a danger to the community, but an influence that is possessed of almost unlimited possibilities for harm...