Word: shame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this implicit backing, Generalissimo Franco sent off diplomatic notes to the Great Powers, announced that he may at any time bombard Barcelona to check the entry of Soviet arms and munitions at that port. In the House of Commons, amid chanting of "Shame! Shame! Shame!" by Laborites, the Conservative and Liberal majority roared "Hear! Hear!" as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden reacted to the Franco note thus...
...student unions have supplanted the more practical and more effective rebellions against rancid butter and "fish with the gust in." Harvardmen no longer pound on in with the eternal leg of mutton, for beef now varies the diet. Our hardy forebears of the 17th century would blush with shame at our foppish assortment of tableware. Members of the Class of 1645 each had only one wooden spoon and one fork, the latter beeing used to nail one's single slice of bread to the table safely out of the reach of everyone else...
...British couple are shown shamefacedly scuttling out of their golf club, as the wife says to her husband, "I always feel uneasy here. We seem to be the only people with a foreign car." In another, an extremely British sales manager in impeccable striped trousers brings blushing shame to the cheeks of one of his salesmen with the hint: "I don't think it looks well for one of our representatives to run a foreign car." Nevertheless Edward VIII has a new Canadian Buick which the horrified United Kingdom industry considers "foreign...
...that the 1% tax on wages which goes into effect next January to begin a sinking fund of some $40,000,000,000 for workers' annuities was a vote getter for Republicans (TIME, Nov. 2), Governor Landon and his cohorts hammered it home, while Franklin Roosevelt & friends cried "Shame," "Falsehood," "Coercion...
...just as if it didn't matter which way they went. How can they expect Landon and Knox and Roosevelt and Garner down there on the field to give everything they've got when the Electoral College boys sit back on the bleachers and say isn't it a shame we haven't had a good team since Lincoln and Hamlin...