Word: shame
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...people of the country cannot be hoodwinked with words. They know the men who fought for the Treaty, and they know the men who pledged themselves to scuttle it. The victory that Senator Lodge and his partizan friends have gained is a victory conceived in shame and born in dishonor. It has put the United States on record as the only great nation of the world which refuses to endorse measures preventive of future wars...
...subway made it seem anachronistic. Yet in spite of its lack of the artistic, in spite of its being the home of the Bursar, Dane Hall had a certain charm. It could always glance over at Matthews or peer round the corner at Weld and put those two to shame from the standpoint of personal attraction. Also it was old, at least old for the United States, and it had become venerable. In its age, with wrinkles stealing on, it had settled down comfortably and seemed to announce to landscape gardeners and architects that it intended staying there for some...
...male passengers fought their way in the direction of the doors, wholly disregarding the duty of the strong to the weak. A number of women and girls were trampled on, probably to the lasting injury of some of them. May those men who forgot themselves remember their actions with shame...
Last spring only four men entered the track competition. Football managers during the first weeks usually outnumber the players. Yet track is a major sport. Such a showing is simply ridiculous, and should shame the undergraduates in College. The track competition does. Track as a sport is popular and important both in the college world and outside. Today's call is the first for undergraduate support. Certainly the shame of last year ought to be wiped out by a greatly increased number of candidates reporting...
...play concerns a woman of noble rank who is jilted by her lover, the Duo de Bligny, and in a reaction of shame and anger becomes engaged to a virtuous and prosperous Ironmaster who is ardently in love with her. The rest of the play, to quote the words of the program, is taken up with the wife's "gradual realization of her husband's many good qualities." There is, of course, an inevitable heavy father, not to mention a mother, a Marquise of correspondingly ponderable emotions. More witty by play is furnished by a pair of comic married lovers...