Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contemporary of Rhazes was called to the king's court to treat a lady in waiting for stiff joints. He tore off her veil and skirt, left her hot with shame. Her heat, wrote the doctor, dissolved the "rheumatic humor." She was cured...
With descriptions of a trip into North China that puts fiction to shame, the globe-trotter mentioned Russia's effect in the present war. A large part of China's arms have been flown into this region, but contrary to popular belief, the main route for Russian imports is the Burma Road...
Soon after Hitler came to power, Joseph Paul Goebbels, Ph.D., asked best-selling Oskar Maria Graf to become his official Nazi novelist. Replied Graf: "What have I done to deserve this disgrace? Burn my books! I would consider it an undying mark of shame if my books were not burned by you." Burned they were, and homeless Novelist Graf has wandered ever since-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, the U. S. In The Life of My Mother, "a biographical novel," Outcast Oskar Maria Graf seeks a way back to his spiritual verities...
...pass on. To this shame is added that of daily hearing the voice of the radio deride the courage, loyalty and dignity of the English in the forefront of the battle, who cover themselves with glory by resisting alone, after so many betrayals. To the insults of wicked Frenchmen, the British answer with words of comfort, and with acts which rekindle the hope of the other French people of France, of the other French people who are much more numerous than one suspects-all those who listen to the broadcasts of the BBC as if near a wide open window...
...poker-faced Pat O'Brien to play Rockne. The selection was like a distinguished service cross to O'Brien, who, like most Irish-American males, is a violent Notre Dame fan in spite of the fact he teased their marching song at parties with a parody beginning: "Shame, shame on old Notre Dame. The Jews and the Polaks have stolen your game." Some plastic work to spread his nose and blondined hair and eyebrows change the O'Brien face into a reasonable facsimile of Norse Knute Rockne. When Bonnie Skiles Rockne, who was brought to Hollywood...