Word: reproofs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...column is not merely a tower of simple wisdom and reproof for lustful maidens, conscience-stricken wives: it is also a civic institution. Nancy's readers gave her $1,400 to reforest 560 acres of land in northern Michigan, gave more to replant them when the young trees were burned over. In 1932, when the Detroit Symphony was going under, Nancy's newspaper family sponsored six concerts, put the orchestra back on dry land...
...Proverbs XVII, 10: "A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool...
...Commerce expressed hearty accord. President Charles R. Hook of the National Association of Manufacturers declared: "There is to be no rattling of any industrial sabre so far as the nation's manufacturers are concerned. . . . Political leaders can help along similar lines. . . ." From diehards came no such gentle reproof. Instead, many a businessman pushed the "spokesman's" European analogy further, suggested that if Government and Industry sat down to peaceful conference, Business could expect Czechoslovakia's fate...
...narrow window ledge, 17 floors above the street, stood a young man, precariously teetering. He was 26-year-old John William Warde of Southampton, L. I., who had recently been discharged from an insane asylum and with his sister was visiting friends in Manhattan. At a slight reproof from his sister, Warde had rushed to the window, climbed out on the ledge...
...Terror of Tiny Town (Jed Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from...