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...Wight. The prince was Louis Henri Joseph, Duc de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, who had picked Sophie up in a London brothel. She was given great estates by her lover, was received by the king, moved in the highest French society despite her lack of tact, her shameless social climbing and her inability to speak the language. Beginning by amusing her super-aristocratic lover she soon dominated him, beat him occasionally and was generally suspected of strangling him to death. In her peaceful old age she retired to enjoy her riches and the protection of the king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worthless Wanton | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...when the Dean of AMERICAN Journalism reassures us that he stands for everything noble in humanity and that his chain of newspapers exists for the sole purpose of protecting us from the baser side of our natures. It is now definitely certain that Mr. Hearst's enemies have been shameless liars: his advertisement assures us that he is in favor of "American independence, American rights and liberties, free speech, free assembly, freedom of thought and action, and freedom of the press." What a comfort to know that no longer will the Hearst papers attempt to muzzle the Communist agitator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TATTERED ENSIGN | 4/23/1935 | See Source »

...important that you countenance in your burlesque shows? For New England's sterility in the creative arts, censorship such as you tacitly agree to is largely responsible. You have more than merited the charges of hypocrisy that have been levelled at you. Is there no end to your shameless inconsistencies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON HYPOCRISY | 1/18/1935 | See Source »

...Shameless hawkers in the Gare du Nord sold what they said were scraps of cloth from her trousseau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Marina | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Said Republican National Chairman Fletcher: "No such shameless use of public funds to influence elections can be found in the most sordid annals of our municipal politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Santa Claus | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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