Word: discomfiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Leguia ordered Senor Gonzalez-Prada to return Cornelius to the Poindexters. Senor Gonzalez-Prada thereupon, last week, cabled his resignation, saying: "The orders contained in your cablegram are unjust and I shall not carry them out." He suspected the Cornelius episode had been used as an excuse to discomfit him. Washington credited Mrs. Poindexter, famed for her knowledge of the gossip of officialdom, with having this time created an Incident herself...
...Should an objector make trouble, the next move is 'smitzing the bogey to hinten' and 'noising the edge,' two procedures calculated to discomfit the objector and distract attention from...
...York. It was impossible to persuade Southerners to nominate Governor Smith four years ago in the Manhattan madhouse. But Southerners are gentlemanly hosts. At and after the first national political convention to be held in the South since the Civil War, Southerners would not (the Smith men thought) discomfit their guests nor disrupt the party by refusing to honor the outstanding Northern candidate. . . Having voted for Houston, outstanding Smith men were placed on the committee of arrangements, including Norman E. Mack of New York, Frank Hague of New Jersey, Isadore Dockweiler of California, George E. Brennan of Illinois...
...effect of this expulsion was not, as Pashitch intended, to discomfit the expelled Jovanovitch and his friend Raditch, but rather to cause a general anti-Radical reaction, which obliged the 15-day-old Radical Cabinet (TIME, April 19) of Premier Uzunovitch to resign. M. Uzunovitch reformed his Cabinet at once, but was forced to welcome into it Croat Raditch, as Minister of Education. The new Cabinet is thus a completely unstable "dog and cat coalition," like the last Pashitch Cabinet (TIME, April...
...saner program. President Coolidge's veto message declaring the bill "economically unsound and morally unjust" expresses to the letter the sincere belief of the overwhelming majority. The new legislation owes its impetus and success at this time, to the desire of an able, if unscrupulous, opposition to discomfit the President by forcing his hand. Their, act, after succeeding in only the latter point, is rapidly turning itself into a boomerang. Mr. Coolidge has met a decisive test in a crucial political year. He has proved beyond doubt his courage, sincerity, and common sense. With Andrew Mellon; his stand is based...