Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arthur W. Nelson, Democratic nominee for Governor of Missouri. Some 50,000 people attended, and some went hungry. Mr. Davis was properly provisioned and then spoke: "Privilege creeps like a viper into the administrative chambers of your executive departments . . . Where can there be found such a chapter of shame in American history as that which contains the names of Fall, Edwin Denby, Harry M. Daugherty, Charles R. Forbes, Gaston B. Means, and a host of jackals who followed in their trail?" At Milwaukee, Charles G. Dawes went to the lair of LaFollettism to attack, not 'because the Republicans hope...
...real menace to American Government are those un punished agents of corruption who have despoiled the public domain and betrayed the people, who have written the blackest page in the history of our Government from their high Cabinet posi tions, and who, it must be said to the shame of the country, have gone to this hour without Executive rebuke...
...land and are entitled to the protection of the Constitution and the Law. It is a satisfaction to observe that the crime of lynching, of which they have been so often the victims, has been greatly diminished; and I trust that any further continuation of this National shame may be prevented...
...that when we speak of God most undergraduates think we mean a stern and forbidding elderly schoolmaster, extreme to mark what is done amiss; or else a grim king on a throne, who is more concerned with sins than with the people who commit them; or else (to our shame, this!) a celestial treasurer, an expert accountant, with a keen eye on the subscription list and collection plate. And when we speak of Christ they suppose we mean a listless, effeminate, oriental ascetic, or else the tyrannical Son of an imperious Father, sent to enforce His laws on an invaded...
...spokesman for the Japanese guests said to Americans present: "The demonstration had not been intended as an affront to the Americans, but was intended to shame the Japanese present, who were associating with Americans 'in this time of national danger...