Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Getting worked up to his war dance, Senator Bridges ululated: "Who is this Ickes who talks so big-at a safe distance-about Hitler? In his own right Ickes is a Hitler in short pants. . . . A professional rabble rouser. . . . A political hatchet man. . . . Like Hitler, he is a common scold puffed up by high office. . . . Who is Ickes to make faces at Hitler? Doesn't he own a mirror...
...name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental Congress. The literary situation which Critic DeVoto found in the East was calculated to exacerbate his deepest instincts, habits of thought and affection. With a loud roar of rage, the felicity of phrasing and invaluable candor of a common scold, he immediately started to set things to rights...
...Something should be done about "innumerable households" that still scold, threaten, shout at, slap, beat their children...
...enlarged his ratings for public speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...