Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mielziner employs only two assistants, shies away from the mass production possible to a highly sought-after designer. "I could enlarge my office," he once said, "hire 50 men, and become a millionaire, but I'd simply sicken myself with grouse and good port, and die of shame." Compared to most theater emoluments, designers' fees, which must cover designers' expenses, are not imposing. Mielziner's $3,500 for Dream Girl is about tops for a nonmusical; his $5,000 for Carousel, tops for a musical; the $30,000 that Mielziner grosses in a big year, tops...
...pull the hole in after us.... It is just as well, perhaps, that only God was present, with no help from ministers and theorists, when Adam and Eve in Eden started out to propagate the human race. The good men would have objected on the ground that sin and shame would be sure to follow, but God let nature take its course. Wars are not fought on the basis of ethics and religion. If this were so, there would be no wars...
Sirs: It's about time that someone came to the defense of the U.S. Naval Academy and the Navy officers. It is a shame that upon the conclusion of the greatest naval War in history, won by the largest and finest Navy in history, the officers who so capably led our sea forces should be attacked and discredited from many sides-even from within their own ranks...
Heah I is, bowed down wid shame...
...Walter Winchell: Hard to tell just what's biting this middle-aged ex-chorus boy. False shame of his race . . . may be at the root of it all. Anyhow ... he suffers from a chronic state of wild excitement, venom and perpetual motion...