Word: reproaching
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...Taft governors-Len Jordan of Idaho and Norman Brunsdale of North Dakota-repudiated the Houston statement that they had signed. Their delegations voted with Taft's side in the rules fight. Said Lee: "The statement ... at Houston was signed ... to see that everything that was done was above reproach. But ... in fairness to everyone concerned, it is impossible for me to see how you can change long-established rules in the middle of the game...
...Guinea is how to name their children. No ordinary name will serve. Each child must have a name that has been taken-along with a head-from a living person. If a child lacks this sort of name, he is a miserable creature, derided by his playmates and a reproach to his parents...
...final effect, however, is far from displeasing. And since Verneuil has neither aimed very high nor touched anything important, it would be difficult to reproach him severely. What he has done is follow the well-worn formula. And, by diligent use of standard ingredients, he has produced a success...
...there is anything to reproach about the picture, it is that the author appears to "stack the cards" in some of his situations to derive the greatest possible effect. But after all, who is to say that it might not have happened that way? Mr. Rattigan has exposed a man's soul with relentless probing, but at the same time with extreme delicacy, and that is about all one can ask of any playwright...
...them dispatched a violently worded protest. Their big objection: the Quadriennale, traditionally a show of contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead. Countered exhibit officials: "After so much modern art, the visitor needs a hall or two in which to rest. To reproach us for this is like reproaching an exhibition for having...