Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...permitted to exercise his talents in the U. S. Senate and his opponents are bitterly saying: "Ho, contemptible one! You have exploited our natural resources, palsied the arm of the Conservation Commission. To obtain your princely attorney fees, you have twiddled weak Governor Fuqua between your avaricious thumbs. For shame!" Last week, Mr. Sanders savagely denied that he was responsible for a new "invasion" of the Shreveport gas field by shoepolish interests. Governor Fuqua returned, unopened, a letter of protest from the chairman of the Public Service Commission...
Conservative Members (bursting into cheers en masse) : "Shame on the Laborites! Baldwin for Britons! Silence! Order! Hurrah! . . ." Joseph Batey (Laborite, rising to filibuster against First Lord of the Admiralty Bridgeman) : "I will not permit the First Lord to speak! I will shout down any man who attempts to speak for this bill...
...brought about, all this endured, because in 1924 the youthful scapegrace of the family, Daisuke Namba, attempted to slay Prince Regent Hirohito of Japan (TIME, Jan. 7, 1924). Though Daisuke was found guilty at an extraordinary session of the Supreme Court and hanged, his father, broken with grief and shame, resigned from the Diet, and enjoined upon his family and himself a voluntary retirement until Death should harvest their lives...
...makers. To the American millions who see the world from the screen of the local cinema palace, Paris has become an absurdity. Only one thing happens. Chivalrous Americans infest Montmartre rescuing poor Apache girls from the dance dives. A girl has no chance to lead a decent life of shame in Paris any more, if we are to believe the movies. It always turns out that she was not really leading a bad life after all. It seems that a Parisian girl is not safe from Americans, no matter what she does. Charles Ray is good under the circumstances...
...piece of superlative insolence. It is so devoid of all common decency that similar conduct would bring a blush of shame to the brazen cheek of a first-class orthodox devil...