Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway writes of Gertrude Stein: "It's a damned shame ... all that talent gone to malice and self-praise . . . she never could write dialogue. . . . She learned how to do it from my stuff...
Anti-Semitism was still alive in Germany. In Berlin last week a German woman, sentenced to six months in jail for offending a Jewish family living in her house, shouted at her accusers in court: "What a shame they forgot to burn you in the concentration camp...
...lush Assam where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...nice," says Bell, "if you can stand the disgrace. I am the shame of Hackensack. My poor father can't go out of the house without being taunted about the three more people his son just murdered...
...messes up a chorus girl's marriage by re-seducing her for the sake of a hideout, a playboy is murdered politely by the man whose girl he makes a pass at. Just as ugly are other stories in which a drunken father fills his son with cold shame, a cynical screenwriter deceives a horrible adolescent, a beautiful but unbearable white girl from Texas tries to make trouble in a Harlem nightspot...