Word: scoldingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outlined a cannily timed proposal for across-the-board boosts of "at least 10%" for all 22 million Social Security beneficiaries. Sharing a platform with local party bigwigs (notably absent: Open-Housing Foe George P. Mahoney, Maryland's Democratic gubernatorial nominee), the President chose a curious way to scold the Republicans - by pinning on them the Democratic Party symbol. "Any donkey can kick down a barn," he said, "but it takes a skilled carpenter to build one. There's a big donkey population in this country around this time of year...
Actually, if they had kept O'Hara long enough, editors would have discovered that he was impeccably impartial. He was simply a scold in spats. "We are living in the Age of the Jerk," he wrote in one of his last pieces. "The manifestations of Jerkism are all over the place and limited to no class or race. It is Jerkism when Negro hoodlums loot a shoe store. It is Jerkism when Ivy League types commit vandalism at a debutante party, and Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle...
Hedda Hopper was the town's genial Scold, Buster Keaton its somber Sphinx; together, they were Hollywood past and present. Keaton's world-the gothic twilight of the silent movie, the pratfall, the Quixote on a treadmill-dimmed when the sound stage dawned. Hopper's world-of glamour, gossip and low jinks among the high-lifes-survived largely because she made it seem exciting even when it was dull. When TV nearly killed the movies, she helped rescue them with exposés and exclusives, chitchat and charm; to 30 million readers, Hedda Hopper was Celluloid City...
Died. Hedda Hopper, 75, Hollywood's genial scold; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles (see SHOW BUSINESS...
Jolly Showman. His doctor attributed Quill's death to a coronary occlusion, the climax of years of heart disease. His condition could not have been helped by his long-run performance as a public scold and Malaprop, whose every appearance was good for scatology and demonology, cracks and castigations, all delivered in a beery Kerry brogue that grew richer year by year. He walked with a limp that he attributed to an English bullet-actually, it was caused by a congenital hip condition later corrected by an operation- and called himself an "elder statesman among public monsters." Mike bluffed...