Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME aimed a sneak punch at Democratic President Truman which landed plump on the good-womanly face of Hostess Perle Mesta. Shame on TIME...
...learn here . . . Buy a railroad ticket, get on a train, and there, where it lands you, there you will learn." Steffens, then 36, and already a crack reporter (New York Evening-Post), bought a ticket to Chicago. Before his U.S. travels were over, he had written The Shame of the Cities, a sizzling series of articles on nationwide municipal corruption. The series made Steffens famous and helped make McClure's the most influential publication...
...Peter told the Pacific Congress about the difficult problem of clothes among the Polynesians. Early missionaries, shocked by their healthy nakedness, taught them to cover their shame with long, ugly Mother Hubbards. Now some of this teaching is wearing off. On certain islands, reported Sir Peter, the natives go naked on weekdays, wear their Mother Hubbards only for Sunday churchgoing. "They are in something of a quandary," he explained. "They have observed that the whites, who made them wear clothes, are wearing less & less themselves. 'Perhaps we were right about clothes in the first place,' the Polynesians...
...children. He spent much time visiting the sick and the jailed. Soon he became a prisoner himself. When Bela Kun established his four months' Communist reign of terror in 1919, Father Pehm attacked him in a pamphlet. The Communists led him through the town's streets "in shame," then imprisoned him in the county courthouse...
Dartmouth's wild and wooly Winter Carnival, where the girls run faster and the wine flows like wine, is back again this weekend. The fraternities have dusted off their bartenders, the parietal rules have turned their backs in shame, and every hotel, rooming house, and bordello within 10 miles hasn't an empty bed left. Oddly enough, this is big news in skiing...