We cannot go around the world acting like a common scold, however good that makes us feel or however well it plays politically at home.
Despite the "common scold" conviction -- the penalty of "dunking" reduced to a fine, which fellow Washington journalists paid -- Royall went on to carry out two decades of investigative reporting and often hilarious commentary in an increasingly divided nation as a pioneering woman editor and publisher.
In one of the most bizarre trials over freedom of the press in Washington history, the "troublesome" woman writer -- make that the "vituperative powers of this giantess of literature," according to the New York Observer -- was indicted in 1829 as "a common scold," an offense of inappropriate public behavior for women plucked from old English laws.
(Mr. Cuomo called it "hydrofracking," the slang term in common use; Mr. Barron scolded him, saying the appropriate description was "hydraulic fracturing" and urged him to consult a dictionary).
Michel and her mother make common cause in scolding her for gullibility, but even when she realises she has been scammed Leah's feelings for the con artist (name of Shar) remain conflicted.
Clark described this as a common euphemism for being "scolded".
Dr. Wilson said that when he and his children, nonbowlers all, recently went bowling, they were mortified when others gently scolded them for failing to observe common bowling etiquette, like taking turns with bowlers in neighboring lanes.
By 1992, 37 had sucked in $20 billion–just in time to collapse along with the real estate market, as industry scold (and Vanguard founder) John Bogle recounts in his book Common Sense on Mutual Funds (John Wiley & Sons, 1999).
Attendants shouting at and scolding women at the time of childbirth appeared common across all regions when pregnant women had difficulties pushing, or wanted to deliver in a traditional position, such as kneeling [ 34, 35, 37, 42, 43, 60, 62, 66, 68– 77, 78] 78].
It revealed a workplace where abrupt firings are common, grown men and women cry at their desks, and people are scolded for not responding to e-mails after midnight.
Last month, the Endocrine Society, the leading association of hormone experts, scolded the Food and Drug Administration for its failure to ban bisphenol-A, a common endocrine disruptor known as BPA, from food packaging.
