Word: blush
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With a blush toward an English Gentleman...
...Negro is so detestable as to be undeserving of the common title Mr., Mrs. or Miss, the courtesy accorded all other races, I wonder if W. C. Poynter and other Southern gentlemen of his ilk can without a blush of shame, stand in the presence of their wives and daughters and explain to the world just why, in so far as physical appearance is concerned, the color line is so rapidly vanishing. Surely even Poynter himself must know that if the stranger in certain sections of the South relies solely on color he is decidedly unable in many instances...
...charming but shiftless Joe's early death in Westlake, through long years of pitying herself, loving little Joe, resolving to paint again but never doing it, running everywhere to take small presents and repeat clichés (a whole encyclopedia of them), Kate is forever and ever to blush unseen, to live unknowing and to be almost happy -Tomorrow Morning-through...
...humor, if it can be called humor, is the humor of a comic valentine; that is to say, it is born of nothing more sprightly than oafish malice. . . . It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing in public without his breeches. ... It bears the Harvard name and reflects on Harvard...
...hard indeed. The things which the Lampoon tries to do are not in themselves offensive; but they must be done well or they cannot be done at all. It is a platitude that clumsy humor is perhaps the most painful thing to behold this side of eternal damnation. You blush for the fellow who tries it, and feel that he has done something equivalent to appearing in public without his breeches. The Lampoon has no official connection with the university; it is published by students as a private enterprise. Just the same, it bears the Harvard name and reflects...