Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alderman, sheriff, etc.) more than 30 times, and "was sent back with glorious colors" every time. He named his headquarters the Greenpoint People's Regular Democratic Organization, welcomed one & all, but kept his telephone padlocked in a wire cage. He opposed Prohibition, cried bitterly: "It's a shame to allow whiskey to lie idle when there's people at Death's door that might be saved...
...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...
...Mexican audience in Los Angeles he cried: "I wish I could say that you Mexican-Americans have been rewarded for everything you have contributed to California. But it is a shame upon your country that you have not. This ... is one of the many disgraces which has made necessary a new political party...
...step. He is as fashionable as John Singer Sargent once was, and his portraits come high (?1,000 and up); but he gets along fine without Sargent's dramatic slickness. What's more, his art, admittedly academic, has enough sparkle to put the stuffy Academicians to shame. At 70, Augustus John and his works are living proof that it makes very little difference what "school" a really good artist belongs...
...James's intentions, his poor are specimens under-glass, people he merely glimpsed during his endless London strolls. They are the aristocrats of the poor, never in want and constantly being taken up by genuine aristocrats who have come to regard their own inheritance as a badge of shame...