Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...traced to scholastic failures. Last year the suicide rate among persons 16 and under was ten to a million, thrice the rate of France, practically ten times that of the U. S. Most of the suicides were boys who had received bad marks and felt, in addition to their shame, fear of parental anger and chastisement, their careers having been mapped out for them from birth, and their flunks connoting life failure...
...municipal individualism. With spectacular adjectival vehemence, the authors shout into the thickening ears of young U. S. cities, loud reminders of the peculiar zest and color of their rambunctious settler days, laying special emphasis on downright iniquitous conduct that is calculated to cover the adipose priests of respectability with shame for their own vegetating passions. The books are part of a current crusade against standardization and the civic inferiority complex that leads Kansas to ape California, Montana to mimic Minnesota, in their timorous search for "the right thing...
Bishop Roots said that the hatred of the Japanese was still great in China, and that a "National Shame Day" is still observed in memory of the submission to Japan's 21 demands after the Japanese Chinese war. But he added that recently the Japanese policy toward China has been more friendly, and that the American immigration policy was driving the Asiatic into closer unity against the rest of the world...
...secret of our utter failure in the league series is not found to rest upon the management or the team, we must obviously seek further for a satisfactory explanation of the situation. And we are fully convinced that the shame of the record that we have made is to be laid at the door of the college as a whole. The trouble may be traced to the very beginning of the year. So little interest was felt in the sport, that only a handful of men attended the annual football meeting in Holden. The strong and heavy...
From the Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate, went a strongly worded letter to Premier Baldwin asserting that "there would be a widespread sense of shame among Englishmen if the Government were to abandon Christians in a British protectorate to the Turks...