Word: shame
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...German Republic's birth and in the craving of large sections of the politically immature German people for strong, masterful leadership. Democracy in Germany was conceived in the womb of military defeat. It was the Republic which put its signature (unwillingly) to the humiliating Versailles Treaty, a brand of shame which it never lived down in German minds...
Putting fiction to shame, the McKesson & Robbins story ran the gamut from gunrunning to human hair for sale, even included a trapdoor. And at the plot's centre was one of the most incredible characters that ever left fingerprints in the sands of time-the man who moved in Wall Street as Tycoon F. Donald Coster...
With disgust and even shame on the part of most of the Western world, it must be admitted that there is only one Man of the Year: Adolf Hitler...
...Belle Barton of Mount Vernon, Ohio was two years old, she was accidentally shot in the eye with a BB gun, became so terrified that she lost her voice for good. At 20, Addie Belle silently conceived and bore an illegitimate child which her mother called Annabelle. Overcome by shame, Addie Belle Barton retreated with Annabelle to a bare bedroom on the first floor of her parents' old frame house. She rarely emerged, often locked the door, kept frisky little Annabelle well hidden from neighbors' prying eyes. Sometimes at night Addie Belle's mother would tiptoe across...
...shame! Was TIME or Mary Morris guilty of letting a dim-witted retoucher put a cigaret in Malraux's left hand (TIME...