Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevented from enjoying the company of worthy friends because of a gossiping public?" he asked. "Please leave me alone. Let me go to the Fair and enjoy the freedom I'm entitled to, and if I want Miss Googins' company, please don't embarrass her by asking when she's going to marry me. Even if I wanted to, I haven't had a chance...
...Gentlemen!" cried Ohio's Cox, "I agree with you that in this grave hour absolute candor is essential. I realize that my presence may embarrass you in your exchange of views. If so, I am quite willing to withdraw...
...favored a less rigid measure which would permit her department to flex working hours between 30 and 40 per week, to meet different conditions in different industries. In the provision barring imports from countries with longer work weeks than the U. S. she saw an embargo which would seriously embarrass the President in his World Economic Conference negotiations starting this week at the White House...
...grounds he had not paid his taxes. When he refused to open his safe, they had closed it with official seals. When they returned, they found that Seltzski had blandly broken the seals, emptied his safe. Though he was arrested, Army men pooh-poohed the talk, reluctant to embarrass one another, friendly Czechoslovakia and potent Skoda...
...work together. In 1913 Miss Perkins married Paul C. Wilson, a secretary to the late John Purroy Mitchel, New York's reform mayor. They have a 16-year-old daughter. Though no Lucy Stoner, Mrs. Wilson kept her maiden name in public so as not to embarrass her husband with her political activities. Her elderly mother always introduces her as Mrs. Wilson and as such she will be carried on the Federal payroll. Mr. Wilson is now a financial statistician...