Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your editorials of last Friday may prove "the shot heard 'round the world", and, if so, may shock--or shame--an ungrateful University to appreciation. Donald Wait Keyes...
...meticulous about boat trimmings and golf clubs, even literary undergraduates, have little respect for craftsmanship in the mechanics of writing. Perhaps the Advocate editors consider cavalier treatment of spelling and punctuation as an indication of their freedom from pettiness. At any rate there are errors enough to shame a capable proofreader...
...clown without cleverness, the most perfect specimen of the cheapest kind of cross-roads orator, such as we see in the comic strips, the Senate ever has known ?an endless delight to the humorous section of the press gallery. He would draw on the State abundantly the shame and ridicule it has earned justly...
...desperate invocations of his frightened daughter. The assassin, having completed his ghastly deed, turned, jumped off the car, fell, picked himself up and made off, chased by an angry mob. Several shots were exchanged between chased and chasers, but without effect. Blind terror made Corvi's sprinting feat shame the legendary effort of Mercury. Faster and faster he sped over the uneven cobblestones of Rome, occasionally looking back at his angry pursuers. In such a moment, he ran full tilt against the muzzle of a loaded rifle, at the butt end of which was a stern Italian soldier...
During the past week, a number of athletes, of both sexes, paraded Moscow streets. Men with bulging biceps and prominent pectorals walked with equally muscular maidens. The sole costume was a little apron and a red ribbon across the shoulders, bearing the inscription "Down With Shame." Infuriated crowds gave chase and the shameless ones found safety in police protection. The Red authorities said: "Don't do it again...