Word: scold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This vast daily fountain of print is a national press. But it is also a hometown press and as such, for nine long years, it had been full to bursting with news of its own kinetic, photogenic mayor, Fiorello Henry ("Butch") LaGuardia. Whether as fire buff, civic scold, uplifter, ambulance chaser, hemisphere-defense expert, official greeter, fashion critic or hometown booster, Butch always has been copy. And the press has been good to him. Few politicians have ever received the continuous campaign support that New York's newspapers have bestowed on their bumptious little dictator and fiery reformer...
...risen 20% since the war started, because Britain requires not only more oil but also the tankers which formerly carried crude oil to Canada. But Canada's move was not rationing. It made gasoline only a little more difficult to buy. Like Secretary Ickes' efforts to scold the eastern U.S. into using less gasoline, it may have to be followed by real rationing...
...annoys him most appears to be what he calls my "almost moronic cheerfulness." This seems to me a classic phrase and I will do what I can to immortalize it. All my long writing life I have been called a killjoy, a sorehead, a Jeremiah, a muckraker, a common scold, a public nuisance-all the names you could think of; and now, having achieved serenity in my 60's, I am "almost moronic." Let me point out to your reviewer that the case is not entirely unique. Emerson managed to keep cheerful through the tragedy of the Civil...
Guests of the Class of 1944 tonight, and acting as critic of the various skits in their review, will be John C. Robbins '42, president of the CRIMSON, and Vic Ehler, janitor of Mathews Hall. scold yzinlhP president of the Lampoon will be an assistant critic...
...whole country knows how Senator Blank feels and where he stands; it and his colleagues have heard him ad lib and ad nauseam and yet he takes up time, creates confusion and dissension, and accomplishes no good, makes no constructive suggestions and in fact has degenerated into a common scold...