Word: scold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bristol, England, Mrs. Alice Shrive, 55, tradesman's wife, died again last week, thoroughly. Thirty years ago pallbearers carrying her body to a grave, stumbled, caused her to rouse and scold them roundly. Two years later, at her second wake, she sat up on the planks and scolded mourners for wailing. Thereafter she lived to have 31 operations. Neighbors were awed. Last week she died again, of cancer; and relatives, twice duped, cut two of her arteries...
Adolph Lewisohn, German-born Manhattan capitalist: "I provided my home last week for a meeting of the Westchester County Committee of the New York State Charities Aid Association and heard Sociologist Edmund Cogswell scold bankers and insurance men for saying that the great majority of aged people are dependent on relatives or charity. An extensive investigation which he made in Massachusetts showed that less than 40% were dependent. It showed, too, that every 100 self-reliant sexagenarians have 260 children, while every 100 almshouse inmates have only 62. The association elected me president...
...college graduate is the figure that the comic papers make him out to be, and the some professors scold about, it is the fault of the Faculty. If he returns to the college and interferes unintelligently in the academic administration, if he demands reforms of which he knows nothing, it is because the Faculty persists in handing the undergraduate student his diploma in the attitude of now be off with you," while at the same time it seeks from the graduate the very means of its own existence...
...exile hungry and longing for real music again?for instance! Not that the city of angels [Los Angeles] lacks an orchestra; they have one, but it is managed by a mechanic who batons his men through great music as though he were late for dinner and his wife would scold. God only knows what he did with Beethoven's Ninth last week. Put it through inside 70 minutes, I suppose! Yes, you can imagine what your little TIME means to me. Would there were more of it and may it reach around the world...
...sold all over the United States and even in England--why at this juncture, because the club insists on maintaining its standard, should any Harvard graduates anywhere cavil at it? Isn't the Glee Club the young men who sing in it? If they prefer the best, should graduates scold them...