Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divided honor and glory with Field Marshal von Hindenburg and-I dare proclaim it all aloud- heightened his glory. Today my German heart aches when I see how the Field Marshal is sacrificing that glory, and it is sacrificed indeed if his name stands under the embodiment of shame and dishonor [the Locarno treaty]. Better to surrender one's position than glory, honor and one's own great past. That is the German way, and even more German would it appear for the Field Marshal to have given battle against this treaty of dishonor and enslavement...
Stella Dallas. Of this picture great things have been said by great people. It is noted as the ultimate in native cinema art. It tells a story of the shame and bitterness of life, of a woman who grew up under hard conditions, her struggle to save her daughter's happiness. All this it does with amazing honesty. Belle Bennett and Lois Moran, not universally accepted personages in pictures, play the leads with extraordinary fidelity. If the picture is not one of the greatest, it is certainly a cardinal achievement...
...specimen: "It [the Jordan 'Playboy' Roadster] is a wonderful companion for a wonderful girl and a wonderful boy. . . . It's a shame to call it a roadster. . . . This brawny thing with the vigor of boyhood and morning...
...Bought the fur coat, I mean, felt he Had to have it to Keep Up with Everyone Else. Now it is All he can Do to keep up with the Coat. He didn't Mind buying that Car to live up to the coat, but it does seem a shame that he can never get Coat and Car Together...
Some years are brushed in. George is a rich builder, with mistresses and a stolid sense of shame. Greta, apart, spiritualizes her grief the more deeply now that Karl is a ragtime king. But her daughter Karoline is Karl's spiritually, almost physically. He gives her music lessons...