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Sack staffs his theaters carefully and keeps the help honest by ringing in an occasional private detective disguised as a moviegoer to make sure the audience count is correct. He is insistent on cleanliness, will berate usherettes for not pick ing up paper from the aisles and scold janitors when he finds dust in rest rooms. Sack likes to roam his lobbies, reminding women patrons that "this place is clean enough to bring your children to, right?" He has been known to step out of his $15,000, chauffeur-driven Cadillac in front of a Sack theater to hustle customers...
...girl should henceforth become his mistress." Families, continued Sihanouk, must warn their daughters "against falling in love with His Royal Highness. As for me, in my capacity as father. I will not allow my son to continue to do such things, and I will continue to advise and scold him. If certain parents and daughters do not pay attention to my warning, they should not hold me responsible...
...waspish criticism is routine for wispy (5 ft. 6 in., 135 Ibs.) Harold Royce Gross, 62, seven-term Republican Congressman from Iowa's farm-rich Third District. Day after day, year after year, Gross uses the crisp voice of a onetime Des Moines and Waterloo radio newscaster to scold his colleagues about their leisurely ways, question any and all spending bills, and push what he considers his lonely fight "to save this country from national bankruptcy." He is a nitpicker and a pest. He detests Washington's social life ("I've never worn a monkey suit"), prefers...
...avoid any attention. When a friend mentioned that local reporters often asked what sort of a person she is, Mary said: "Just tell them I'm a homely old lady." Her new acquaintances are so protective of her privacy that they go out of their way to scold inquiring reporters, and most of Reno's press has lost its taste for asking questions about...
With an amazing capacity to seek out scoundrels and scold them, the muckrakers exhumed disgrace everywhere. They goaded Congress into adopting a bristling bouquet of reform legislation, gave birth to the Progressive movement, and stirred the U.S. into new social consciousness...