Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shame on Father Sill for employing such unscrupulous methods...
Based on Cradle Snatchers, a Coolidge-era farce in which three long-suffering wives commandeer three college-boy gigolos, Let's Face It! chucks college boys for draftees without bringing shame upon the Army or disaster to the show. It is a lively job, leaping nimbly from gag to gag, light on its feet, pleasant to the eye. Cole Porter's score, though never haunting, is often hummable. In a generally competent cast, Comedienne Eve Arden stands out for her deft, acid touch, Mary Jane Walsh for her singing personality...
...Since the 80-hour war ended three weeks ago, old Reza Shah Pahlavi, many of whose political theories seem to be concentrated in his good right toe, had locked himself in his palace at Teheran and put to shame the classic sulk of Achilles. It was reliably reported that a Cabinet Minister who ventured to pay a call on the Shah was flogged with the flat of the royal saber, then punted off the premises by the royal boot...
...took with him a portfolio of cartoons making fun of Pétain and Darlan as Nazi satellites (see cut). It was a shame, said Henry-Haye, "that a man with the Marshal's record should be subjected to this ridicule." Vichy's Ambassador does not send such cartoons home to France. He knows that most Frenchmen look on the U.S. as the savior of democracy, says he is afraid it would break their spirit if they learned how the U.S. feels about Vichy...
...next issue of the Lancet, Dr. Violet Russell of London answered this theoretical objection from practical experience. Wrote she: "Somewhat shame facedly and surreptitiously I have encouraged any expectant mothers, who felt so inclined, to drink this infusion. ... In a good many cases in my own experience the subsequent labor has been easy and free from muscular spasm. . . . More labors are held up by muscular . . . tension than are delayed by muscular weak ness...