Word: shame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S picture showed Mrs. Moody making a particularly vigorous tennis shot, happened to show her legs partly exposed. Shame on those who cannot keep their mind on the game...
...educational policy, which even transcends the importance of "teaching teachers to teach," is necessary to the very keeping of American civilization. The public tends to underestimate the strength of the teacher's place in the world and to regard his job as merely a job; it is a shame that Professor Whitehead's insistence on the necessity of autonomous professions for the freedom of the modern state, especially education, cannot be more widely grasped...
...Shame & Gratitude...
Your TIMEly report of the disconcerting outcome of the notorious Tampa flogging trial (TIME, Oct. 25), will give progressive Tampans, who believe in civil liberties and who wish to believe in the integrity of Florida justice, cause for mingled shame and gratitude. Such searching scrutiny of the facts must eventuate in some progress...
...latest shipment of newsreels from the Chinese-Japanese war reached Manhattan last week, the city's Japanese Chamber of Commerce heard a rumor which caused it great discomfiture. The Chamber was under the impression that a shot of captured Japanese aviators exercising in their shirttails might bring shame on the Emperor's forces. As soon as the Chamber had a look at the films, however, its tranquillity was restored. The aviators had maintained their Oriental dignity even without their pants. The fact that the same batch of reels pictured the destruction to the huge and plainly marked Nanking...