Word: shamelessness
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...Bishop of Stortford, who denounces Cocktail Time ("obscene, immoral, shocking, impure, corrupt, shameless, graceless and depraved") from the pulpit of Belgravia's St. Jude the Resilient. "All over the sacred edifice you could see eager men jotting the name down on their shirt cuffs...
Even in that warm wonderland of swamis, fly-by-night faith healers and hard-eyed Hollywood flesh peddlers, O'Malley was obviously something special. Half Irish and all gall, he is a sucker for other people's promises and a happily shameless manipulator of his own. His gravel-voiced oratory beats at the unwary with the brass of a top sergeant and the blarney of a sideshow barker. To doubt his most outrageous argument is to deal him a mortal affront. But doubters there are. For Walter is a complicated soul. When there are two ways...
...could be-and was-accused of doing more harm than good. But it was hard to fault his eloquence. On the approaching marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough, he mocked: "The fiancé of Miss Vanderbilt is descended...through a long line of titled cuckolds and shameless pimps, and now stands on the ragged edge of poverty, bartering to parvenus for bread an empty dukedom bought with a female relative's dishonor." Brann scoffed at James Whitcomb Riley, "the poetical ass with the three-story name," railed at a clergyman-critic as a "monstrous...
...deny, the Pope continued, that there is such a thing as fashion that is "shameless, which causes perturbation in ordered spirits and may be an incentive to evil." Such fashions are bad, however esthetic they may be. Man "quickly notices hidden shamelessness and seduction . . . Although creators of impudent fashions are skillful in contrabanding perversion by mixing it with esthetic elements which are honest in themselves, human sensuality is unfortunately even cleverer in discovering it and in being readily fascinated by it." And even though the cut be modest, the cloth "may be guilty of excessive luxury, which is an offense...
...conference thereupon whooped through a farm resolution as politically potent as it was economically shameless. Its principal point: larger federal stockpiles of farm commodities (present Government-held surpluses: $7.3 billion) should be permitted by law and "such carryover [should] be removed from consideration when establishing prices in the marketplace." Its economic meaning: the farmer should get top subsidies even while commanding top market prices. Its political meaning: whatever the cost to the taxpayer, Midwestern Democrats plan to leave no political row unplowed in their work toward a bumper vote crop...