Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promptly after France collapsed, and 2) the entrance of the U.S. into the war were factors that no amount of chest thumping could counteract. From a symbol of greatness Mussolini by last week had become a laughingstock to millions of Italians. His daughter, Edda Ciano, was aware of the shame, prayed for an hour each day in a Roman cathedral. Her husband, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, appeared everywhere flanked by secret-service men. He was as bitter as the people. "No wonder we blunder," he said. "Mussolini is lovesick-so lovesick he has no time for affairs of state...
...great shame that the phenomenal run of this play can be traced only to sex. The actors and producers have forgotten that this was only a part of the original play. Granted that the play was poorly written, it nevertheless told a poignant story which had tremendous force. In unmeasured terms it depicted the revolting conditions then prevalent throughout the South and honestly portrayed the bestiality that such a way of life produces in human beings. It is a sad commentary on the present production that these conditions--still all too common today--should now produce only titters of smutty...
...face wan from prison illness, his mustache no longer a trim, precise line above his lips. Last was Daladier, thick-necked Bull of Vaucluse. They sat facing the judges. Behind them 200 newspapermen, using Darlan police guards as copy boys, waited to send the story of France's shame to the world's far corners...
...have been introduced to a new orientation course. It includes 15 fifty-minute lectures on world events leading up to Pearl Harbor, not omitting any unpleasant details. Faithfully the War Department follows the aim to keep propaganda out of the lecture room and tell the facts even if they shame our own nation. One of the purposes of such a streamlined program is to show that we as a nation are far from infallible, that, in large part, we are responsible for the present holocaust. "We have been just as blind as any of those broken peoples. We merely...
...headquarters in New York City felt the pinch of shame. This sanctum of super-sleuths had been entered by stealth and pilfered with profit. Almost worse, two detectives of the city police force succeeded where the Federal men had failed, snagged a Negro porter who, they claimed, confessed the theft. The loot: two expensive miniature cameras, a telephoto lens. The accused: Charles Beverly Grayson, a WPA porter who had once worked at the Federal Court House, New York headquarters...