Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which explained his sex impulses with the commonplaceness of a mechanic expounding the ignition of a Ford? Would the result be completely good? Can the little boy who is a "radio bug"± be assumed to grow up quite naturally into an adolescent "sex bug," equally without necessity of shame? An attempt was made to answer these questions in the affirmative by a new publication, Your Body, which appeared on the news stands last week, price...
...TIRED of being imitated by the Daily News and are willing to pay $10,000 to any intellectual giant that will tell us how we can SHAME them, DISCOURAGE them, CAJOLE them, COAX them, PERSUADE them, or SCARE them into stopping their infernal chameleon-like imitations of the Daily Mirror...
...desire a cosmopolitan atmosphere or a specialized education. The others--those whose object is to get a liberal arts background sufficient to enable them to boast of a certain amount of culture, have an ideal haven in the small college, such as Dr. Holt proposes. Nor is it any shame to them that they do not care to go further than the outlines and the shell of education, the probabilities are that such a training will be the more beneficial to their chosen paths of life. A college whose enrollment is restricted to five hundred (or, if coeducational, seven hundred...
...negro problem has always been one of great moment in the United States, and the slowness and inefficacy with which it has been treated has long been a topic of discussion and a cause for shame. Therefore the news that the South is aiding the negro to educate himself is most welcome, as a sign both of negro educational advancement and of the enlightenment of the people as a whole. It is also most encouraging to learn that this progress is taking place in the South wherein lay most obstacles to the solution of this problem...
There were other Commencement vanities savoring less of the flesh and the devil. On the great day the ladies of the Colony turned out in full regalla, calculated to shame the lilies of the field. There is a famous story of an elderly dame who sat up all night before the 1758 Commencement to save her hair, done up the previous evening by the coiffeuse, who had no other tine for that particular lady. Another writer on Commencement--one bitter toward the fop-pishdress--declares that a roomy family coach could carry but two ladies, one sitting forward...