Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DONT SCOLD STOP WILL EXPLAIN STOP CURLEY WILL WIN IN BOSTON AND QUINN IN CAMBRIDGE STOP WALKER WILL CARRY NEW YORK
...Bureau of Efficiency is his legislative child. But in the confusion of Senate debate, Senator Smoot gives no hint of his great influence. His voice is thin and quarrelsome. Senatorial badgers easily fluster him. He tries to smother them under a blanket of indisputable statistics, only to scold them for their mockery of his "facts...
...head of the Ferguson family was Mom Ferguson, a dowdy, cynical scold. Impelled by her stupid and melancholy faultfinding, her two daughters and son rebelled by getting married. Before they did so, one of the daughters stole dresses in the store where she worked and the son made love to a rural chit over his prize-winning plans for a bridge...
Last week I was all set to scold you for omitting some very good news from your last edition. In the first place you made no reference to "Guts" Thompson, Chicago's bookish mayor. I was even going to suggest that you run his picture on the front cover, but I was too late. The second piece of news omit ted was about Ruth Elder and her escapades...
...going to scold, but I changed my mind when I received this week's issue. In today's issue of The Boston Traveler I read what is almost a duplicate of your story about Sen. Curtis of Kansas and decided that TIME isn't killing so much of it after all. I'll say TIME is "going some" when it prints its stories ahead of the newspapers...