Word: discomfiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...
...week, for the fourth time in 1935, the members of those august bodies met in Washington, looked at one another with sad eyes. They had met to part but even their parting was not allowed to be sweet sorrow. A grave problem and bitter issue was on hand to discomfit even their valedictory...
...years the new rule served. It was used to bring about the first vote on Prohibition, two votes on prepayment of the Bonus. Last summer Democrats began to rue their rule, under which the Republican minority combining with a few recalcitrant Democrats could seriously discomfit the Administration by exhuming many an unpleasant legislative monster from its committee grave. Many a poor Congressman who had made promises to his constituents felt he had to sign petitions for bills whose passage he did not in the least want...
...Village Wooing succeeded to a degree that will discomfit the author if he ever hears about it. The Dallas Little Theatre audience . . . blithely unimpressed by its history-making function, laughed often and loudly at the Immortal's casual scherzo and damned it as the most pleasant entertainment on the precincts since Ten Nights in a Bar Room...
...stampede was started by sly, fleshy Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri. A Democrat, son of a great Democrat, but also an American Legion founder, Senator Clark had fought the President tooth & nail on the Economy Bill, which cut veterans' pensions, at the special session. He now prepared to discomfit the President by introducing an amendment to the liquor tax bill providing an extra excise on wines & liquors imported from War debt defaulting nations. Leaping at the chance to sound off on their pet hate, debt defaulters. Senate Democrats and Republicans alike began to line up solidly behind the Clark...