Scolds

Scolds, cheating bakers or brewers, and other petty offenders were placed in it, usually at their own doors, to be hooted at and pelted by the mob.

Fire escapism 2010

Ah, that's the slant the press will take: "Maverick McCain Scolds Big Tobacco"

McCain Jokes About Killing Iranians 2009

Scolds Authorities MOSCOW -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited a town ravaged by the global downturn and blamed one of Russia's most prominent tycoons, Oleg Deripaska, as well as local officials for its dismal condition.

Putin Visits Town, 2009

Scolds in Congress such as Barney Frank have long sought to clamp down on the credit-card companies.

The Fed's Price Controls 2008

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Maliki Scolds His American Critics 2007

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The Scolds at the New York Times, at it Again 2007

~ Obama Publicly Scolds His Own Spokesman for Not Playing Nice -- "Markos calls attention to this story by Lynn Sweet for the Chicago Sun-Times, reporting that Obama has repudiated the "hardball tactics" of his own communications chief Robert Gibbs, who apparently acted unilaterally without authorization in firing zingers back at Camp Hillary, when Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson got all whiny and peevish about remarks made by David Geffen."

Speedlinking 2/27/06 William Harryman 2007

Josselyn records that in New England in 1638, "Scolds they gag and set them at their doors for certain hours, for all comers and goers by to gaze at ...."

Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

For many are damnably liquorish tooth'd, everlasting Tattlesters, lazy Ey-servants, salt Bitches, continual Mumblers out of their Pockets, wicked Scolds, lavish Drones, secret Drinckers, stifnecked Dunces, Tyrants over

The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh

Scolds and railers were set on a ducking-stool and dipped over head and ears three times, in running water, if possible.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various