Word: blushful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saying "To Hell with the Constitution" while defending the prohibition of 'divorce in South Carolina. He corrected this quotation: "Seventy-five thousand white men of my State indorsed it as I said it, and here is what I said: 'If the Constitution of my State causes my State to blush and allows her women to be forsaken, then I say to Hell with the Constitution.' We stand alone on this proposition and we are proud of it and we have no apology to make...
...final act the piece turns into a bedroom farce without warning. But it is innocuous enough to make Avery Hopwood blush for his craft...
...been as revolting and degrading as those of the last four days. Slander, gossip, and mud-slinging have been the rule instead of the exception. Yesterday witnessed a method of club election which would have put any decent slave-dealer during the worst days of human barter to the blush. Men were passed or rejected in a manner that would make the gorge of any decent man rise. But even this is only a small manifestation of the rottenness of a system which forces the smaller clubs to adopt such practices as the only means of filling a section...
...Should we not blush if the President of the International Red Cross at Geneva pleads in his address to all civilized countries urging collections for starving Germany 'that your generosity might act as example to the German rich and induce them to do their duty to their poor compatriots...
...moreover, an interesting, a powerful originality. Never except in the Glee Club's great song "At Father's Door" have we heard such gripping, monotonous, insistent despairing horror as in the continuous, strangely rhythmed first movement--"Mars--Bringer of War." All the numerous Wallenstein symphonic poems must blush at their innocence! A change in the order of these pieces would improve their effect. Toward the end they are all of such a drowsy spirit that the listener is infected with the same mood. "Jupiter"--Bringer of Jollity" with its American ragtime rhythms would make a better ending than does. "Neptune...