Word: dishonors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true poetry. When the Spanish Fleet at Santiago was destroyed; Admiral Sampson made the "boorish jest" of calling the victory a Fourth of July present to the U. S. people. Santayana wrote Spain in America as an answer. The poem is a lament for Spain's "sadness and dishonor," a moving and eloquent cry for a marriage of the two cultures, the spirits of the North and South...
With great enthusiasm and a high resolve not to dishonor its name, a group of Cossack villagers form the Joseph Stalin Collective, and in an extraordinary variety of ways proceed at once to run it to the ground. The principal figure in this comedy of Communist errors is Davidov, forthright, well-meaning mechanic and onetime gunner who arrives at the isolated village of Gremyachy Log, in the Don basin, with instructions to organize all the farmers except the wealthy ones. He is ably assisted in getting into messes by Nagulnov, secretary of the Communist Party in the village, a long...
...father's fame. Besides such eminent figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand, Henry Bernstein. Rejane, Anatole France, Eugene Brieux, Paul Bourget, he knew droll and pompous nobodies, devoted lovers of the theatre, all of whom impressed on him the constant fear that he might, from lack of talent, dishonor the name he bore...
...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...