Word: opprobrium
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...like thieves and executioners, lead extrasocial lives. In public, they are customarily hated by the players whose doings they adjudicate, scorned by the crowds who watch them. In private, they follow the same itinerary as baseball players but travel on different trains, stop at different hotels. To relieve the opprobrium of their calling, which takes only six months of every year, most umpires follow more gregarious sidelines in the winter. Umpire Ernest Quigley, a National League veteran of 22 years, has a hog ranch in Kansas. Until recently, he also taught English history and mathematics at St. Mary...
...certain vague opprobrium is attached to all 5? games played indoors by seedy sportsmen. That the pin-game has been able to evade the consequences of this is due to the fact that it is not essentially a form of gambling. Whenever he indulges in it, a pin-game player is sure to lose a nickel. Last year, however, when the novelty of plain pin-games began to wear off, shrewd operators devised the idea of rewarding high scores with prizes. "Sportlands" (of which there were soon 60 in New York) are pin-game parlors which give to their customers...
...This year's ABC is mainly notable because entries and gate receipts, biggest since 1930, are further proof that the mysterious influences which govern U. S. tastes in sport are currently producing a bowling revival. Originally an aristocratic pastime, the form of indoor bowling called "ninepins" acquired such opprobrium early in the 19th Century that laws were passed against it. The contemporary U. S. game, played with ten pins set in triangular formation instead of the square of nine still used abroad, was designed to evade these laws. Until a year ago, the 5,000,000 enthusiastic bowlers...
...would, nevertheless, be a mistake to hold Japan up to opprobrium. . . . She saved the country [Manchuria] from [Imperial] Russia at the beginning of the century and she has since protected it from the chaos and anarchy which have beset other parts of China. She legitimately acquired economic rights which were illegitimately obstructed by the Chinese. The Japanese frequently argue in their own defense that they only wish to do in Manchuria the civilizing work which Britain accomplished in Egypt. Historically they claim they also are following the examples in other parts of the world, of the United States, France...
These affairs are worse than unintelligent intoxicated exuberance of the secondary school type. Immaturity even in men of college age can always be tolerated. But such an astounding disregard for the rights, if not the opinions of others, can be condoned on no ground. The opprobrium of bad taste is not even a sufficient indictment. Arousing men out of bed to annoy them with assinine questions all night long is bad enough, but to attempt to spread rumors about the President of the University shows an absolutely unexplainable height of sheer offensiveness...