Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defense. The first duty of a self-respecting newspaper man a duty both to his own calling and to the public is to make the press what it professes to be an honest medium of news and of editorial conviction. Anything short of this is a shame and disgrace...
...cannot agree with you, Mr. Editor, that Harvard is unmoral or even indifferent. Nor can I agree with my friend Mr. McCubbin that Harvard is put to shame by the prayers of other colleges. Every center of thought has its group of atheists, who, strictly speaking, may be termed "godless". It might be interesting to us, and certainly reassuring to our brethren of the Middle West, if we had a third referendum to determine exactly how many men are atheists. As for the rank and file of Harvard men, so far as my observation of them has gone, I believe...
...economic opinion, based upon premises of fact, which have changed so rapidly as to make them worthless even if they are in agreement." Stating that he could speak neither for the American Government nor for the American people, Mr. Dawes added: "But as an individual, I read in shame and humiliation the outpourings of the American nationalistic demagogues who undertake to lecture Europe in order to lift themselves into some petty office or to maintain their political popularity...
Five years, in pride and selfishness and universal shame we have bowed out heads over our little tasks and left the great task of establishing the peace of the world in the hands of our former allies, discouraged and hindered by our repudiation of the work we had begun. If others in those years have pursued selfish aims, we who set the example cannot blame them. If in those years, or in the years to come for which they prepared the way, there has been, or shall be, strife and bloodshed that our strength in the council of the world...
Israel Zangwill, Anglo-Jewish poet-author: "I made speeches in Manhattan. Said I: 'There is very little of honor, justice or dignity in this country as compared with England. You are also vulgar. . . . You have no shame, no sense of humor. . . . The opinion of a prize- fighter is sought regarding the merits of a judge to be elected and is printed in four-pound superlative waste in your papers...