Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sued for divorce. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr., 28, four-times-married sportsman and sugar tycoon; by Emily Hall von Romberg Spreckels, 28, comely onetime baroness; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Charging brutality and shame brought on by his Nazi associations, Spreckels' wife complained that he had once flaunted a swastika in a Manhattan cafe...
...Shame on Reader Clark for admiring militaristic mugs more than homely U. S. faces. If better-than-Nazi brains are not in the heads of the present U. S. general staff, they will be found in other equally American craniums...
...this great chapter, Mann makes a flat denial of those stream-of-consciousness subtleties whereby James Joyce put to shame all "psychological" fiction before and since Ulysses. Mann's own model, down to the very bumpiness and cantankerousness of the style, is the dramatic monologue as developed by Browning. Many of his gripes, grouchings and mph-mph mannerisms are hardly superior to those of a young "character" actor playing an old man. Between these strict archaic boundaries he constructs a complexity of invention, scholarly research, literary criticism, topical satire, prophecy, pure poetry. In every refraction, like the turnings...
...task. Taking no chances whatever, Hopkins & Co. had commandeered Senator Lister Hill of Alabama to nominate Franklin Roosevelt for Term III. Balding, melodramatic Senator Hill laid his ears back and bayed in a manner so floridly reminiscent of Civil War Days that editorials in Southern newspapers blushed for Southern shame for days afterward...
...been chosen for the handing over of these conditions, then it was done in order, once and for all, through this act of just retribution, to eradicate the memory which was not a glorious page of French history and was felt by the German people to be the deepest shame of all times. France has been beaten in a series of bloody battles, after heroic resistance, and has collapsed...