Word: shame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Broadway. What sent her packing was grandmotherhood, her first (see MILESTONES). She was not homesick for the theater; she liked Hollywood fine-the weather, the sunsets, the Pacific, the moon. As for cinemacting: "It's so much easier than the stage," said she, "it's a shame to take their money...
...might have been consumed by fire from heaven. Last week, in front of Kansas City's strikebound Elko Photo Products Co., a 24-year-old A.F.L. cabdriver named Harvey Warner paid the penalty for modern blasphemy. Arm in arm with striking A.F.L. women workers, Penitent Warner paraded his shame for two eight-hour shifts, draped in an accusing sign: "I am a heel. I crossed a picket line...
...Frankfurt, Army psychiatrists noted a, growing total of mental cases, particularly among soldiers scheduled for return to the U.S. Symptoms: obsessions of "shame and fear" as a result of "sexual promiscuity...
...difficulty is that you haven't had the chance of meeting the kind of people who do speak well. . . . For, coming to Denver as you obviously have, with a prejudice against people here, you are not likely to be welcomed with open arms. It's such a shame you had to come here at all. Perhaps your husband can discover oil on Broadway or Park Avenue and you can go back...
...prove one's innocence when there is no means of knowing of what one has been accused? No, there's no justice for people like us in the world: all that we can do is to suffer as bravely as possible and put our oppressors to shame...