Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram's wife, Rebecca, believes in life-weary Edsel as the ambassador of a richer existence. After the bucolic Hiram has fled his shame, she stays on until Joe, cowshed philosopher, reminds her to leave for greater conquests. Gene Riminy, wastrel squire, and his mad, illegitimate Yolande furnish further confusion to a fantasy in embarrassingly amateurish water colors...
...Cramp to say that Dr. Cunningham's statements are unsupported is, to say the least, misleading. Results count and I am only one of many who are alive today through Dr. Cunningham's treatment and we all feel that it is a shame that there are those who condemn without investigation, and thus discourage those with so-called hopeless diseases who might be cured or greatly benefited...
Public Opinion. The flood district looks to the Federal Government for a flood-prevention program 'that will definitely prevent a recurrence of this spring's disaster. Proud, the people have almost without exception accepted food and money from the Red Cross with hesitation and apparently with shame, though certainly their destitution has been none of their making. Neither have they set up any loud clamor for Congressional grants of money or supplies, although the feeling that they have been more or less forgotten by the rest of the country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee...
...Premier Raymond Poincare and his Ministers are turkey-gobblers, the laughingstock of the universe, the shame of France...
...Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub with the legs of a high-jumper. So pronounced is her dancing ability, it is a shame she is allowed to spoil her effects by squeaking forth in song...