Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When answered in the affirmative, Mr. Maude exclaimed, "You know, that is a shame. Why, I have always been a great supporter of college courses in dramatic writing. Before I ever came to this country I tried to persuade Oxford and Cambridge to adopt something of the sort. Mind you that was before I ever had heard of Professor Baker. The critics laughed at me and Punch published a rather humiliating but very amusing cartoon of Bernard Shaw. Barrie, and other well-known playwrights all sitting in front of a blackboard at school. Then when I came over here...
...tender sensibilities. You are too active, and have got out of control. ... You don't mean to be bad, after all, and you were born a good child. I love you all the same. But nevertheless you are too arrogant. . . . You are giving military drill to your girls. Shame! You are making military preparations day and night. Against whom? Whom are you afraid of? Of Japan...
...want to be the Governor to free Kansas from the disgrace of the Ku Klux Klan; and I want to offer to Kansans, afraid of the Klan and ashamed of that disgrace, a candidate who shares their fear and shame...
...What can a man say who has just won so great a triumph?" Said Pierre Wertheimer, owner of Epinard: "I believe my horse should have won the race." Said Jockey Haynes, whose overcautious riding turfmen blamed for the French stallion's second U. S. defeat: "It was a shame...
Journalists who read the American Mercury for October went hot with pride, shame or anger. Editor Henry Louis Mencken had delivered himself of another diatribe on U. S. journalism. Once a newspaper man himself, Editor Mencken now looks down upon his former fellows and their calling with scorn and impatience. His tirades are bitter, egregrious, painfully penetrating. They are the firebrands of a studious but inactive idealist...