Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swayed by Love. Miss Kent explains her novel and its denial of the virtues she has preached for years as "a kind of protest. I kept being torn between the nice living I've made out of radio and the sense of shame I have at turning out the kind of stuff women listeners demand." Whenever she tried making Portia "more rounded," a sliding Hooperating and a cascade of angry letters sent her scurrying back to the shelter of the nearest clump of clich...
...shame that a great nation should take a stab at a great world.leader after he is down. There are thousands of people who know China and the Chinese people, who believe the catastrophe could have been avoided as late as 1948, but our "statesmen" could...
...good story. When he got to his office, he called in two young rewrite men and asked: "How would you like to be bums for a while?" What Norlander wanted was an inside story of Skid Row to shock Chicago's complacent citizens into cleaning up the shame of their city...
...young (27) editor of the Memphis Press, Leech wrote a fiery editorial ("The Shame of It All") blasting Boss Crump's political machine, and accusing local judges of whitewashing Crump election frauds. Sentenced to ten days for contempt of court, Leech was escorted to jail by a brass band. Half an hour later, he was pounding out a story on a typewriter in his cell-first of a ten-day series called "Jailed." Admirers sent Leech a well-stocked refrigerator, fresh linen, flowers and cigars, and a faithful reader brought her daughter to recite the Declaration of Independence...
...Hennock maintained that "without a specific mandate from Congress for us to curb the prevalence of this type of program, our action today is unwarranted." Even a contestant was heard from. Mrs. Elaine Smith of Dallas, recent winner on CBS' Winner Take All, pouted: "It's a shame the FCC should be so nasty as to try to stop all this nice entertainment...