Word: dishonored
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...action in these two dioceses is a dishonor to the Episcopal Church and it arouses grave fears as to the effects of our recently adopted canon on marriage. Does this mean that through the wrong interpretation of the canon by some diocesan chancellors and the weakness of some bishops we are now to have a number of ecclesiastical and moral Renos, and the consequent abolition of any Christian standard of marriage, in the church...
...Uriah is a disconcerting, fair-haired innocent-a rigidly idealistic young soldier who takes noble vows and blindly worships his king. David finally concludes that death for Uriah would be infinitely less tragic than disillusionment and marital dishonor...
...alarmed Mohandas K. Gandhi offered advice to the women which, for a vegetarian, seemed surprising: the only way they could avoid dishonor, he said, was to bite their tongues or hold their breath until they died.* If that would not work, he snapped, let them take poison. He was feeling crotchety, anyway, and "thoroughly ashamed" of an error he had made in a letter, calling the Moslem League "the authoritative representative" (of an overwhelming majority of Indian Moslems), instead of "the most authoritative representative." Peevishly, he muttered that a man who made such mistakes probably would not live...
...believe pride is the basis of his character. I think he felt the dishonor of France as few men can feel anything. . . . To come to the British as a suppliant . . . was intolerable. But he could look to no one else...
...next and last 59 pages of Past All Dishonor describe Roger's and Morina's activities as murderers and train robbers. Little is heard save the crack of Roger's .36, the thud of dropping corpses, and Morina's trills of sadistic ecstasy. It all winds up with Morina lying dead in the snow, covered with stolen jewels, and a posse closing in on lonesome Roger. Far away in the background, the Civil War pursues its peaceful course, untroubled by the agonies of love...