Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shame for TIME'S letter department to be used as a medium by TIME readers for slamming previous letter writers. Letters of criticism and appreciation are of great value, but when they are written just to give digs at some other reader who has written to TIME, it really does not help anybody one way or another and seems a rather childish attitude. This may sound as if the pot were calling the kettle black, but I assure you that the pot does not feel as black as the kettle looks...
...without explaining his reasons to Congress at formal length. For example, he vetoed a bill to increase Civil War pensions. As a result, the Pennsylvania Northeastern Association of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled and proclaimed "that the said Calvin Coolidge wears A CORONET OF SHAME...
...Ritz. Atlantic City is flashy, yet is permitted a Ritz. Last week it became known that one other city in the U. S. would achieve this monumental seal on its civic success. There was some doubt, however, which city this would be, that would outclass Berlin and cast shame on Tokyo. It might be Chicago. It might more probably be Los Angeles...
...seems a shame to waste a fine actress such as Blanche Yurka on such a trivial play. Those who saw her in "The Wild Duck" or in "Flamlet" with John Barrymore, know her worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
...Such a thing is a shocking outrage upon these fine American girls, and a shame on any Administration...