Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Popular though his daughters may be, Dean Gauss became at once unpopular. The motor-loving young men of Princeton baited him by all means-by roller-skating noisily, by driving horse-and-buggies, by wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
Christian Shame...
When Canberra became live news last week on the eve of its emergence as a great capital, many a sterling U. S. citizen felt acute shame at ignorance of almost everything about Australia except its rank as a British Dominion and its position in the Southern Hemisphere...
City-bleached people flock to the seashore to get a coat of tan. Soon, perhaps, they may sit in their offices and bake to a brown that would shame a lifeguard. For Architect Hugh Ferriss plans skyscrapers of glass-the kind that permits health-giving ultraviolet rays to come in-threaded with steel beams. Last week he showed to newsgatherers a model which he had designed for next month's Machine Age Exposition in Manhattan-a little structure like a faery crystal palace strung with moon-shafts. In exchange for a minimum of privacy, which could readily be increased...
That Diana's put to shame...