Word: shame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been desired to sew up an alliance or break one off. Turkey recently considered herself lucky to get a loan of $30,000,000-her price for switching from the German to the British side. In the House of Commons this week, the Opposition, which had been crying "Shame!" at the Prime Minister and stressing "friendship" for Czechoslovakia without proposing measures of succor, was politically thunderstruck. It was obvious that the Czechs & Slovaks may find it good business to get rid of 3,250,000 Sudeten Germans in exchange for a loan of $150,000,000−or about...
...minds was the reaction of M. Leon Blum, Socialist leader of the most influential party in France and the only Jew ever to become its Premier. "War has probably been averted," wrote Editor Blum in Le Populaire, "but I feel myself divided between cowardly relief and my sense of shame." Only 36 hours later Leon Blum blazed up and withdrew his Socialist Party's support from the demands which French Premier Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister Chamberlain had made upon Prague. Although these demands had just been ''unanimously approved" by the whole French Cabinet, three...
...this month distributing Old Age Benefit payments by hand instead of mail. To sellers of liquor and beer Happy has given a 40-day extension of their licenses, just beyond primary day. If a lot of free drinks are not served on his behalf it will be a great shame...
...Mankind belongs to the order of Primates. There is no more reason for our being ashamed of our Northarctus ancestors (early Primates) than for the horse to be ashamed of Eohippus (early ancestral horse). In science we have no fear or shame, we merely survey facts open-mindedly. He shows slide of Northarctus, a fur covered monstrosity...
...Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Master of Eliot House, last night begged off from a more complete statement in view of the fact that he was in the midst of making up the History I exam, but did say that "he thought it was a crying shame that so many good men were excluded from the Houses...