Word: reproofs
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...trainloads of precision tools, dies, and machines for making airplane motors passed through Washington, Russia-bound. Equally confusing was it that, after 3,500 American Youth Congress members in their New York convention had booed President Roosevelt's defense program, Mrs. Roosevelt addressed the brattish assembly, with kindly reproof. Snorted testy Columnist Frank Kent: "In view of the striking record of hostility toward the Dies Committee of the Department of Justice, the President and the President's wife, to say nothing of the extraordinary White House coddling of such Communist-saturated organizations as the American Youth Congress...
...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...