Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Davis: "Shame to a state which will permit a child of a normal mother to be taken away or which will allow brothers and sisters to be auctioned off to the highest bidder ..." (The Secretary's metaphoric reference was to institutions for orphans which can care for applicants only according to the extent of their facilities, the size of their endowments, and to adoptions by well-to-do foster parents arranged by bureaus...
...tutors and pupils were at the mercy of each others' whims and weaknesses--a situation which engenders self-reliance if nothing else. But in America I have been asked to formulate methods and recite the Tutorial Code and Catechism, and I very much fear that in confusion and in shame of my inefficiency I have been tempted to invent them. In practice, a great deal depends upon the individual tutor's strength or weakness, permanent or periodical; and much more depends on the pupil's capacity to excite the tutor's anger, interest or fear according to the nature...
Enraged at their ignominious defeat, the besotted horde of dirt hounds sought revenge by storming the Crimson Building with their natural weapon, mud. A near riot ensued in which the three CRIMSON news editors who happened to be in the building put 43 lampoon amateurs to shame. Peace was not restored, however, before the blood of the misguided humorists had been spattered indecently over the facade of the building and on the sidewalk. The cringing pseudo-comic mudslingers then retired to their funny little bungalow on Mount Auburn Street, carrying most of their wounded with them...
...made defeat impossible, the gentlemen of the Crimson put the minions of the lampoon to rout this afternoon in the annual football game on Soldiers Field. From start to finish the low minded punsters were suppressed far more efficiently than by police and post-office and finally retired in shame at the short end of the customary 23 to 2 score...
...Shame Yes, an would ye believe it? I hear as how one uv the hathen at the University has been making dir-rty remar-rks 'gainst His Holiness. He said he never knew fwhat a papal bull was until he laid eyes on the Cardinal...