Word: upbraiding
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...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...
...shouted "Hallelujah!" and "Praise the Lord!" At length, convinced of her "mission," she set out to crusade against the Demon Rum. Then began her saloon-smashing career. Almost six feet tall, weighing 175 pounds, she would stride through the swinging doors of Kansas saloons* smash windows, mirrors, bottles, glasses; upbraid bartenders and patrons. In a Wichita saloon in 1900 she eyed a nude over the bar, told the bartender that the picture was an insult to his mother. As the town marshal escorted her to the station, many a rotten egg was flung at the Hatchet-Swinger. She was jailed...
...cold ashes upbraid him, But little we'll care, if they'll let him sleep...