Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...translation of the Declaration of Independence said: " That Mr. Mencken has failed to perceive the gulf between the sterile vulgarity of his performance and the massive dignity of the original, is for Americans not a matter of ridicule, but for the hair shirt and the lash, for tears of shame and self-abasement." If Dr. Scott really means all that he should refrain from reading the newspapers. Mr. Mencken's translation may be and undoubtedly is as uninspired as all the rest of the prose and verse which has been done into American, but none of it is worth...
...perfect. We fear though that the hero and the villain left us totally unconvinced. Will Banion was about as graceful as the average opera star, and Sam Woodhull was just too lazy to live. The cast was not up to the setting as a whole, and this seems a shame. However the setting is the important thing in this picture and that is done remarkably finely. The thing of most significance being that none of the big scenes are obviously manufactured--nothing seems consciously thrown in. It certainly ranks first on the list of fig films which Boston has seen...
Concerning U. S. shipping: " I am proud to travel on an American ship. I think it would be a shame if the Government sold these boats at this time for a small price. . . . The loss in operation can be made up in many ways, and we will always have the boats...
...lengths to which three New York chorus girls have gone in seeking knowledge should cause the average student to hide his face in shame. Not content to trust one University or to consult one authority, these ambitious ladies sent a letter beginning "How can I help myself to a better and more cultured mind?" to the heads of Columbia, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, New York University, and Harvard. The response they got must have staggered them...
...thought I should shame these pig-eyed dolts into a realization of how little I cared for their traditions. Today I went into the Civil War Memorial Hall and stood for fifteen minutes with my hat on. Several hundred undergraduates were passing through but not one of them paid any attention to me. Then I discovered that every one of them had his hat on too. They are a degenerate set, truly, they have no respect for the past...