Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fiends at Moscow are said to be Jews-a contention not entirely true. In other countries where the common rudiments of law and order are preserved more by instinct than by compulsion, many millions of people have been horified by the injustice of the execution and pained at the shame and disgrace which has befallen the name of Russia. Regarded dispassionately, the execution seems the quintessence of arrogance and unmixed contempt for the opinion of the world. It is in effect proof positive that the autocracy of the Tsar has only been exchanged for that of the dregs...
...both of them, of course, naked) for the first time. But they had both ruined that moment by hypocrisy and shame, and the life in her soul had been killed. With the daughter he is slightly more successful. She begins to see the vision, with him, of a world transformed by love, divested of sham, in which everyone sees behind the cloak of the actual to the reality of the spirit, and in which minds commerce freely with each other. That is what he meant by love-a marriage of the spirit, in which one individual for a long...
Paris newspapers have had a good deal to say about the shame Germany ought to feel for letting her sink to penury. The fame of both Wagner and Liszt is international, and if the companion of one and the daughter of the other is left in indigenous circumstances, should not the whole world be stigmatized as shameless...
This excerpt from the diary of that old Puritan, Samuel Sewall, shows how completely the order of the English Parliament in 1644 put an end to merry Christmas. All the hoary customs were forced to hide their faces for very shame, and none of them dared to reappear, except on Merrymount, until dour Cromwell was succeeded by the lively Charles. Then one by one they came back until in 1719 Sewall mournfully writes "New England men came hither to avoid anniversary days, the keeping of them, such as the twenty-fifth of December...
Which turrible shame...