Word: scolding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CASTING DEPARTMENT was run by "a lawyer who, like the Colonel, had been in drama at college." Casting was geared to turn a prostitute into an angel, to repolish a yaking common scold, or curve hard lips into "the kindly weak smiles of a deserving claimant." The main problem, the Colonel explained, was keeping jurors from discovering "true character" in the courtroom corridors "when the actor gets off the witness stand...
...Level XI (605 B.C.), Makor was a broken-down little village where the only excitement was an occasional romp with the sacred prostitutes of Astarte -until the Babylonians came. Corner, a self-righteous scold who must have seen proof sheets from the Book of Jeremiah, prophesied the fall of the city, the Babylonian captivity, and destruction of the conquerors...
Kerr later put out an explanatory statement that seemed to scold the regents ("Offenders must be disciplined, but due process must have its due place"), the faculty ("Faculty committees should not seek to avoid their responsibility"), and students ("Academic institutions have traditionally set standards of moral and ethical behavior conducive to their principles"). But he implied that his resignation was not irrevocable, saying that it was "not my inclination...
Oxbridge Words. The "don" in don rag comes from the Oxbridge term for tutor, and the "rag" is an Anglicism, meaning to scold. Scolding is not its only function. The catalogue calls the don-rag "diagnosis and prescription," and students in difficulty are given extra don-rag periods, throughout the term. Dean John S. Kieffer believes that those having the hardest time should receive the tenderest treatment. The sophomore who was charged with flippancy and debunking was considered a bright but complacent boy who could take the harsh words...
Through Waltzing Dan's room troop: his termagant sister (Pert Kelton), a scold who would rather be righteous than right; a mournful Jewish crony, much dismayed that a recently deceased and cremated friend might be occupying the ashtray at his elbow; a refreshingly downbeat priest to whom God is all Greek and man is vile, and a medical fraud who takes Polaroid pictures of his patients at each visit to trace their rate of decay. These flavorful characters are impaled on a toothpick plot like canapes. The story that should make the play go makes it stop -whether Waltzing...