Word: warningly
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...want to warn you not to expect too much. You remember when we were told by some American missionaries that we and our country were 'full of sins and how 'good Christian nation and ideal country America is'? Well, that's all bunk, I tell you. They are just the same human beings as we are, and not all the people go to church either, as you and I dreamed. I don't know why I was so dumb in believing every thing that those God's messengers told us without considering general human nature whatsoever...
Undergraduate papers fall into two groups: the bulletin boards and the journals of opinion. The bulletin boards are harmless sheets packed full of college gossip. Criticism of the University is seldom ventured. The editorials exhort the students to Back the Team, warn freshmen of the evil consequences of Walking on the Grass, and advise the use of Better English...
...find yourself sitting on the edge of the seat when the women who have left their happy homes for the Riveria and love come back and warn their daughters-in-law "not to make the same mistake I did, my dear." Do you admire a girl who, with a horrible example staring her in the face, can go off with a firm determination on the same chase? Does the sight of Romance battling with the forces of Society and The Right Thing, faltering, seeming to lose, and then winning after all, delight your soul? Go to the Circle. Lost...
...leaded gasoline should be colored, to distinguish it from plain gasoline and warn people not to use it for cleaning clothes, washing hands...
...Munsey forbade smoking in all his newspaper offices. Reporters would have preferred to be denied almost any other implement of their craft, but he paid them well and they were content to bribe elevator boys to warn them of the Big Chief's approach. Occasionally, however, when they were forced to lavatories for their smoke, they would refer unpleasantly to the Mohican Chain Stores, and among younger men the impression got about that Frank A. Munsey was the world's greatest grocery man, and a newspaper man only by grace of tin cans. Had they never heard the big story...