Word: obloquy
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After seven years of peace, victorious France and vanquished Germany have exchanged places, according to the special correspondent of the New York Times. The nation which at Versailles was saddled with all the moral obloquy and mach of the material debt of the war has staged a sensational comeback...
...first play of the new policy happened to be in itself a failure has nothing to do with the case. That policy was boldness; and whatever the charges to be laid against the artistry of "The Moon Is a Gong", upon other scores, upon the important one it mocked obloquy. The play unquestionably possessed the virtue for which the Dramatic Club picked it: that it could not be charged with same-ness. It was anything else you will; but not 'just another one'. The strike for originality which its choice represented was eminently successful...
Publicity may be either a boon or a burden. To those who get too much, it is certainly a burden. For such mortals a book should be written telling the proper etiquette when confronted by reporters or news photographers. They should be told, if possible, how to avoid the obloquy which the tinted press heaps upon their slightest slips in press etiquette...
Perhaps it may not always be possible to avoid such obloquy. Consider the case of Gaston B. Means, summoned to testify before the Senate Committee investigating Attorney General Daugherty (see Page 2). Detectives, like diplomats, are hardened to publicity. Mr. Means may have pictured to himself the photographs of misbegotten individuals appearing in the Daily News, Manhattan gumchewers' sheetlet, or other kindred papers. The poor unfortunates had tried to hide their faces from the camera. As result their portraits were printed with such remarks as "the alleged - shamedly covering his face" or "the notorious - cowering before the camera...
China, the whole Japanese press poured obloquy upon the head...