Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that its very atmosphere seems to dampen any show of enthusiasm for gayety; those who argue thus point to the sombre but dignified array of portraits on the walls as evidence. I distinctly recollect hearing a "long Harvard" given in Memorial Hall on one occasion that would put to shame any cheer heard in the Stadium of late years...
...shame, a burning shame is this to the lofty toned America of 1917 and 1918. A lasting insult to the men of 1776 who fought our battles and won our freedom for us. The writer is not a swearing man; if he were he would lift aloft the Henry Watterson war-cry in the late Hohenzollern strife and paraphrasing it devoutly cry: 'To hell with the name Rainier from Mount Tacoma...
Then the tale begins again with the mulatto weakling, David Lee, in whom the soul of a poet grew. His poems won him the love of a deformed little country mouse, Hebe, who painted pathetic pictures, wrote him beautiful letters and cowered from his sight for shame of her crumpled body. He cowered from her sight for shame of his color, and all the more so when she impulsively sent him a picture of her lovely sister, in place of her own likeness. When Hebe discovered David's secret, she loved him notwithstanding. When he discovered hers, his bitterness...
Very few people of prominence have left as much information about themselves as Richard Wagner. Far from any display of reticence, he positively hurls his private life into the teeth of posterity, notably in the voluminous autobiography Mein Leben. So Mr. Newman feels at liberty to peer without shame into dubious corners of the Master's life. It might be supposed that, with an autobiography whose avowed intent was "unadorned veracity," the private life of the composer would not be a hard matter to probe. Unhappily, Mr. Newman finds that, far from being a frank revelation, Mein Leben falls just...
...Mencken by name, editor of the American Mercury, has buzzed and stung at the flanks of U. S. journalists. But Gadfly Mencken does not sting solely to infuriate. Gadfly Mencken is an idealist. He stings, he maddens, he browbeats only that working newspaper men may be awakened to the shame of their "cowardice, stupidity and Philistinism." Idealist Mencken has magnificent ideals for U. S. journalism...