Word: blushful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional politicians and the newspapers. One debates national affairs in college but one does not consciously prepare for a public career. One mistrusts oratory and is, in any case, incapable of it. The brothers La Follette of Wisconsin are incomprehensible exceptions. Most U. S. college men would blush to hear themselves utter the kind of thing contained in young Mr. Churchill's lectures...
...dirty foreign literature washing up on clean U. S. shores, Senator Smoot made a collection of volumes recently seized by the Customs agents and during his Christmas holiday pored over improper paragraphs to amass arguments for the retention of censorship (TIME, Jan. 6). His threat to read aloud blush-provoking passages, if necessary, helped to pack the Senate galleries last week. After twelve hours' fervent debate the Senate did reverse its position, did reimpose a modified form of Customs censorship, but without a public smut-reading by Senator Smoot or anyone else. Instead of obscenities, the gallerites heard...
...into the U. S. Excerpts from these he was prepared to read to the Senate as concrete arguments for censorship. He would ask for a secret legislative session, unheard-of since the Senate moved from Philadelphia to Washington. If he did not get it, he would let the Senate blush in public at what he was determined to read to them as samples of "foreign filth...