Word: blushful
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...blush, every year, on the Monday morning following Lantern Night. The Freshmen, in the pristine glory of their untilted caps appear before us in wistful immaturity. We pity them, and we cannot be of service. Somehow, to give their caps a gentle shove to right or left smacks of the embarrassment of dropping dimes in beggars caps; the grateful glances of the aided are so humiliating to all concerned. And yet, friends, it is not even this that causes us our heated blush. It is that so many of us, in years gone by, have stealthily tipped our caps ourselves...
...prince in his own right in Africa He knows things which would make the imperialists of every country blush with shame. Descendant of Said Kafu and a long line of distinguished Negro merchants and sailors, he has known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more...
...Wilbur the elder, the large-handed, the large-hearted, with the eye like the mock-turtle in Alice, caused more blush-worthy embarrassment during the Coolidge era than any other member of the Cabinet. First came the inept Wilbur speechmaking in the 1924 campaign, necessitating his recall to Washington. Then there was a series of Navy disasters ? the Shenandoah, the S-51, the S-4 ? for which no Secretary could have been held directly ac countable, but during which Secretary Wilbur handled himself so clumsily that he became the butt of worse than blamed ridicule. Pressmen made sport...
...historical version of his execution. Louis was primarily a political victim; his life was a standing menace to the security of any thoroughgoing revolutionary regime and as such could not have been spared. But the case of the French Catholics is not so ill-founded as at first blush might appear...
...house is full. With ponderous trimmings the ceremonies start; the picture runs its petty pace; friends cheer friends; foes whisper obloquies. Then to the stage steps someone who is someone. He makes a speech. He summons to his side the stars of the particular pictures. They bow and blush. The audience cheers wildly. Some people get bored and go out. Soon everyone goes out. Outside the radio tells the world the stars are going out. More cheers. Cries of "good night...