Word: shame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Generalissimo Franco's French representative, made ready to move into the big, bleak Avenue George V Embassy, and in London the Duke of Alba, Generalissimo Franco's agent to Britain, prepared to take up quarters in the imposing Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Opposition M. P.s cried "Shame!" and "Betrayal!" in the House of Commons when Mr. Chamberlain announced the recognition of Generalissimo Franco; in France Socialist leader Léon Blum felt "nauseated" when M. Daladier made his announcement to the Chamber of Deputies. But both the Chamber and the House were expected to approve by large...
...immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem? Was the piano out o tune? Most emphatically not! It was simply that certain unnamed but fuzzy-bearded individuals were engaged in peeling hair off their respected chins with (O shame of shames) electric razors...
Miss Laidlaw's catch not only put to shame the heavy-tackle anglers who think they have accomplished something when they land a tarpon with 24-thread line, but also went on record as the outstanding achievement of this year's 99-day Miami Fishing Tournament. Deep-sea angling experts could not remember a more remarkable feat in Atlantic waters...
...shame say what it will...
...sudden the treasurer and inside 'shotters' gang got cold feet and started a secret investigation with no other objective than to cover their steps and run to cover, making me and underlings the goat and bring shame and humiliation on my poor loving wife. . . . There are no millions lost or hidden, much less narcotics or alcohol involved...