Word: shamelessness
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...According to the yarn, Smathers had a little speech for cracker voters, who were presumed not to know what the words meant except that they must be something bad. The speech went like this: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism with his sister-in-law, and he has a sister who was once a thespian in wicked New York. Worst of all, it is an established fact that Mr. Pepper before his marriage habitually practiced celibacy...
...August, 1949, issue of "Partisan Review," Schlesinger referred to sociologists "bursting onto university campuses, overflowing with portentous...hints of mighty wartime achievements, fanatical in their zeal and shameless in their claims, they persuaded or panicked many university administrations into giving their studies top priorities...
...care of the new racial slant; more work, indeed, than would seem to have been done on the production. A road-company cast is indulging in low (even for Tobacco Road) comedy capers. But this Tobacco Road is less alarming in itself than as a portent of even more shameless stunts for squeezing a few extra bucks out of the show. If a Negro Tobacco Road, why not one laid in the Middle West, or in the Middle Ages, or in the heart of Mayfair (changing the title to Park Lane...
...mounted quickly and burst forth in the open hearings held before McDowell in the State House from January 13 to February 8. Most of the spectators were strong Van Waters partisans and didn't try to suppress their feelings, it looked to them as though the case was a shameless example of political muggery, for the defendant had a long and brilliant record in reformatory work; she was internationally famous for progressive techniques in treating delinquents...
...flatfoot with a big mustache. 'Beat it,' he said, 'and take off that scandalous bathing suit or else-' 'What do you mean?' I asked gently. Then he said there's a new order prohibiting indecent bathing suits and that I was a shameless girl. Why that dirty flatfoot wasn't even a Roman. My Mario says it's all the fault of that rowdy Christian Democrat Scelba, and the walloping that's in store for me when mama hears about it will be his fault too, the s.o.b...