Word: dishonored
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...Negro Joe Louis last June, the Italian Boxing Federation ordered him to stop talking about the bout. When Carnera applied for a passport to return to the U. S.. Achille ("Pantherman") Starace, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered it canceled. Reason: "Carnera's showing is a dishonor to Fascist sport...
...understanding of the peculiar problems of Southern life. Indeed, Author Rylee finds the central motive for Mary's persistent effort to free Mose, for Rutherford's brief acceptance of his social responsibility, in their profound love of the South and their hatred of those who would dishonor it. Passionately Mary denounces the decent people of Clarksville for their acquiescence to such crimes as the framing of Mose. Yet she finds that many who avoided her during the trial congratulate her for her courage after her defeat, discovers among her neighbors many who feel as she does...
...show-down on the death of onetime Chancellor General Kurt von Schleicher, shot with his wife by Nazis during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9). The General's regiment has demanded that either something be proved against von Schleicher, so that his name can be stricken in dishonor from the regimental rolls, or that the General's innocence be acknowledged, his assassins punished. In the State Opera these demands of military honor were satisfied, so the rumor ran, by Nazi admissions that General and Frau von Schleicher were innocent, Nazi assurances that the guilty had been punished. Moreover...
...Adapted from Claude Farrère's novel La Bataitte, the tale involves a "neutral" British observer who has the run of a Japanese flagship, the Japanese commander's unhesitating use of his dutiful wife to get naval secrets his country needs, his final expiation of this dishonor. Aside from the extravagances of the plot, the pictorial treatment of The Battle is nearly perfect...
...secession, and deprecating war, I could take no part in an invasion of the Southern states.'' But once his decision was taken he indulged no regrets. The war over, he could say: "I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor. And if it all were to be done over again, I should act in precisely the same manner." Biographer Freeman allows Lee high marks as a strategist and commander, but thinks he had weaknesses as both. Lee was sometimes too much of a gentleman, says Freeman: by not standing...