Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Highway Users Conference, Mrs. Emily Post, doyenne of U.S. manners, wrote a 46-page treatise called "Motor Manners." Sample mannerisms: "... A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards. A courteous lady will not 'scold' others raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would act like a 'fishwife' at a party...
Fisher said that he "had attempted to serve the HYRC as a 'spokesman' in both the NSA and Student Council" but was refusing any further backing from the Young Republicans because they, while not supporting him fully, still assumed the right to "scold...
Boston's pink-cheeked Porter Sargent is the Westbrook Pegler of education. He envisions himself as a kind of public conscience to the profession, and succeeds at least in being its common scold. Each year, in revising his Handbook of Private Schools, he writes a new introduction, and usually finds something different to attack. Last week, with the 31st edition of his Handbook, he took up the evils of wealth...
...shouted: "No! No! Warm it up! It is no good if it is not warm!" His windmilling was nothing like Toscanini's economy of gesture, but in its different way it did not seem wasteful: he got the musicians playing over their heads. Says De Sabata: "I scold them, tease them and torment them-but they play very nice-they give...
...will be lost forever, and I'm go'n' to do it." Being Virginia born, Douglas Freeman had heard endless talk of the war; he had seen Generals Longstreet and Fitzhugh Lee in the flesh. The headmaster of McGuire's University School used to scold the boys for tardiness by reminding them that the battle of Gettysburg was lost because General Longstreet stopped to give his corps breakfast...