Word: upbraid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next order of business was to upbraid the secular press, which Catholic journals have long assured their readers is biased in favor of the Government side, for its handling of the Spanish civil war. President Fitzpatrick drew more cheers when he said: "We Catholic editors have been studying for years the conditions in Spain," and offered the services of the Association's members to set secular editors straight...
...verse, in a childlike treble. But just as often her voice varies with her mood to tragic huskiness. Sometimes her throat plays unfortunate tricks. Last fortnight in Detroit, where she gave a reading, Miss Millay was repeatedly interrupted by coughing in the audience. Each time she would pause, roundly upbraid the coughers. Toward the end of her reading Miss Millay herself was seized by a fit of coughing, to the undisguised glee of her audience...
...persuade her to forsake Shakespeare and Henry Irving (who, Shaw thought, was wasting her talents) and cast in her lot with a really good playwright, one George Bernard Shaw. But she stuck to Irving about as long as he needed her. Shaw admired her loyalty, never ceased to upbraid her wrongheadedness. Loud in his Brobdingnagian denunciations of Henry Irving, Shaw did not resent the fact that Ellen Terry had "many enduring friendships, some transient fancies, and five domestic partnerships of which two were not legalized...
Truculent, wearing red shirts, a group of Indian Communists confronted St. Gandhi at Karachi last week, began to upbraid him for "betraying India" by his pact with the Viceroy (TIME, March...