Word: demeaned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing really affected father Sitwell's innate dignity-not even his habit of crawling on all fours around his house, a Malacca cane clenched between his teeth, in order to observe his latest building schemes from a fresh angle. But once, as Osbert remembers it, he did demean his noble station-when his butler, whose wages were overdue, politely requested an accounting. Shocked to the core by this impudence, Sir George stalked the shrinking varlet slowly across the room, finally whispered in his ear the terrible words: "Shut your ugly...
...rain started drifting down into soldiers Field even before the game's first kickoff caromed off the side of guard Emil Drvaric's shoe to be smothered by a Tiger forward operative 55 yards away from his objective. Halfway through the first quarter, the precipitation lost its casual demean, as did the Tiger pack...
...waded out into the public ring slugging. His first speech before the Diet was a huge success. He said nothing, and said it briefly, elegantly, forcefully. He was not worried about financial matters because he had achieved the major political triumph of persuading former Finance Minister Sotaro Ishiwata to demean himself to be the Premier's own secretary; nor about military matters because the Emperor had taken the spectacular, unprecedented step of calling in General Hata to bid the Army obey the Cabinet...