Word: shame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
...Scutari, Flo and her charges sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing...
...once the Commons rang with cries of "Shame!" "Sabotage!" and "Why don't you resign...
When the Corporation announced that Yale's next President would be James Rowland Angell, Michigan '90, a large body of alumni, who felt that no one could cherish Good Old Yale but a Good Old Yaleman, were stricken with grief and shame. Few had the perspicacity to divine that now if ever was the time Yale needed the unemotional guidance of a man who, like a foreigner in the Orient, would not be judged too severely for short-cutting an unwieldy mass of custom and precedent. An Angell might march boldly in where an alumnus President would timidly...
...charm and urbanity of his readings. But Professor Kittredge has been at once a good, a scourge and an inspriation. For nearly a half century he has prodded good students into better work and opened their minds. He has blistered the incompetent with his scorn and brought shame to the cheeks of the ill-mannered or the inconsiderate. To those with inquiring minds he has pointed out roads which they have followed with happiness in succeeding years. With the hammer of scholarship and the tongs of wit he has beaten the plays of Shakespeare into the reluctant minds of adolescence...