Word: shame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witnesses began. Day after day, past the prisoner's dock marched men who had led France in the prewar years of disunion and gathering defeat. They talked torrentially, plaintively, querulously. They pleaded, argued, wept, declaimed. They defended themselves, often by accusing each other. They were France, baring her shame...
Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for war guilt at Riom, eyed him without visible emotion...
...seems a shame that there aren't more writers to defend General Patton. No one criticized him when he led the Third Army through Germany. Now that he has returned to his homeland, bombarding him with criticism certainly isn't very appreciative...
...first the committee had felt disposed to blame only one of the club's 1,550 members. But regretfully they had come to the conclusion that more were involved. If the revelation did not shame the culprits into decent behavior, said the tart letter, the committee would not hesitate, under Rule 29, to invoke the extreme penalty: expulsion from the club for unbecoming conduct...
Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...