Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative La Guardia of New York. Representative Casey, from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. (an anthracite region), took the floor in the House. Himself a coal-breaker when eight years old, Mr. Casey brought to mind heart-breaking memories, gave way to tears of grief and rage. "Oh, Pennsylvania, what a shame!" he cried as he belabored operators and executives, including "the great Herbert Hoover," whom he blamed for not denouncing an inhuman situation;* President Coolidge, to whom he imputed "presidential yellowness;" and Secretary Mellon whose interests were accused of "hiring private assassins." The Red Cross was also taken to task...
...this woman Critic Lewis Mumford has said: "She has beautified the sense of what it is to be a woman; she has revealed the intimacies of love's juncture with the purity and the absence of shame that lovers feel in their meeting; she has brought what was inarticulate and troubled and confused into the realm of conscious beauty, where it may be recalled and enjoyed with a new intensity; she has, in sum, found a language for experiences that are otherwise too intimate to be shared...
...Middle West, prosperous, and here in New England we're slipping. I'll bo the biggest gun this town ever produced if I can get the shoe manufacturies to this town. We ought to have a fighting admiral in the Navy Department, not an Annapolis grad. Damn shame politics and the Navy have to mix up. When I'm a little older...
...Vare's seat was further with in the room. He walked in and sat upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
...baseball or basketball game, or other physical exhibition, we would have turned thousands away. But here we have a group of children doing a serious work marvelously and our auditorium is less than half filled. . . . I want you to tell all your friends that I consider it a shame that Cleveland hasn't filled this auditorium for this occasion...