Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are drawbacks. One must train assiduously. One must never seem awkward in action, never miss the single death stroke. To do either brings hisses, discredit, disgrace. The crowd knows the rules of the game meticulously and insists that its pleasure be exquisitely executed, from the first gravely passionate bar of the Carmen music that is always played, to the way the "butcher" or dagger-man delivers one last stroke of mercy when the bull is in his death throes. Bullfighting is a sport to be appreciated only by a hot-blooded people, folk in whom an artistic bloodlust...
...Allowing Congress to pass legislation which the Supreme Court has declared to be unconstitutional", continued Professor Babbitt, "is equivalent to declaring the constitution void. La Follette represents, therefore, part of a dangerous trend in this country to discredit the judiciary, and ultimately to undermine and weaken the veto power of the constitution upon popular impulse...
...proposed to stop the play by means of the provision of the Revised U. S. Statutes which permits the wearing of the uniforms of the U. S. service on the stage only if no discredit is brought upon the Service...
Professional baseball has again covered itself with mud. Two players have tried to discredit the sport which they represent, for the sake of victory. What effect this incident will have on the national game is hard to predict. The wound which the White Sox inflicted in 1919 may prove still sensitive to the salt of scandal...
...Freshmen had hoped to reap revenge for their recent defeat at the hands of the Junior University aggregation, but they were disappointed by a length and a half. It was a close battle, however, and the outcome is more to the credit of the Seconds than to the discredit of the 1927 eight...