Word: shame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally believed that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled to a vice den and repeatedly assaulted. Thomas Peteet, miserably ashamed, turned on the gas in a San Diego hotel and killed his whole family. Four Mexicans were tried for the crime, and acquitted...
...prince in his own right in Africa He knows things which would make the imperialists of every country blush with shame. Descendant of Said Kafu and a long line of distinguished Negro merchants and sailors, he has known Cecil Rhodes, Conrad, Sir Alfred Milner. He has circumnavigated Africa 18 times, crossed it four times. He has been shot, cut, thrown overboard and almost hanged. And now, at 63, before he wrote this, his autobiography, he was penniless in Chicago. Compared to good old Trader Horn, his life has been more hazardous and more colorful, his philosophy and whole existence more...
...possible under the designation "Mr. A," and it was not until last year that Queen Mary restored the Maharaja to general English esteem by welcoming him publicly to the Royal Box at Ascot. Cinema cameras caught the whole party smiling and chatting amiably, with no trace of squeamishness or shame on anyone's face...
Incredulous folk found more interesting than these holy doings the hard fact that in New Delhi, India, last week, the Indian Legislative Assembly rejected (53 to 24) a bill which would have made illegal the notorious Indian practice of "Child Marriage." Cried several members, "Shame! Shame!" As everyone knows, there are numerous recorded instances, claimed by Hindus to be exceptional, wherein mature and even senile Indian males have taken unto themselves wives under eight years old. The bill rejected last week would have set the ages of consent at 18 and 14 for youths and maids respectively...
...Shame on you, TIME, every woman cries...