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Word: shameless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...suppress everything about it? Why not suppress some of the scandalous debates of the U. S. Senate or the House? Surely these debates are a discredit to the nation, and whoever reports them is, according to the standard of the writer in the Graduates' Magazine, "plying a shameless trade," and is disloyal to his country. I can say why it is not best to suppress them: it is because a good tempering influence is exerted by these very reports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 3/10/1897 | See Source »

...nine. The object of yesterday's game was to see whether they could play better ball than the freshmen. Now killing time is not playing base ball. If a game is to be won, it must be won by squarely superior playing, not by delaying the game in the shameless way in which the Ninety-four captain dragged out yesterday's match intentionally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/10/1892 | See Source »

...beardless, and so great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Njal's Saga. | 12/4/1891 | See Source »

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