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Word: shame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel it a shame that an individual who has outstanding un-American qualities as Granville Hicks and also who has a wealth of knowledge of the Communist situation that it would be a catastrophe that his services would be lost to the Communist party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorgan Petitions Moscow to Give 'Unamerican' Hicks Job | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...former Solon, new "legislative agent" for the city of Boston, declared it was a "shame" and "kind of tough" that Russia was not going to take care of Hicks whom he described as having been "bodily fired from Harvard University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorgan Petitions Moscow to Give 'Unamerican' Hicks Job | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...Half-Brother Alois, who now runs a prosperous Berlin café (discreetly under his first name), Adolf Hitler has a full sister and a half-sister. For a time his half-sister, Angela, served as his housekeeper at Berchtesgaden. His father, also named Alois, was a source of great shame to the Führer: he had three wives* and died a drunkard. Furthermore, Father Alois was the illegitimate son of an Austrian peasant girl, Maria Schicklgruber, and a miller named Johann Hiedler, who refused to recognize the child. The boy therefore grew up under his mother's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hitler v. Hitler | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...made to achieve artistry in "Fair Enough," and this has been successful through a skillful blending of music, costumes, settings and choreography. The chorus has been drilled to military precision by William Holbrook, and in one scene on a dark stage with luminous masks puts the Vincent Club to shame...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/28/1939 | See Source »

...small college" attitude. For Dartmouth men come from the mad whirl of city life and know what the bright lights look like. "Let's have a new Dartmouth tradition, a cosmopolitan, tweed dressed, and smartly polished one." Harvard, once a "small college," has turned suburban without that sense of shame from selling out! May Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO YOUR TEPEE | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

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