Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THIS IS MY STORY-Eleanor Roosevelt-Harper ($3). Offered as "probably the most fearless and revealing of all modern autobiographies," this one is also remarkable for the fact-rare among wives' memoirs-that it contains nothing to embarrass the husband. First published serially in The Ladies' Home Journal (TIME, March 8), and now among the ranking bestsellers, This Is My Story is told without literary pretensions. Several cuts above her columnist style, but with the familiar homely, philosophical asides, This Is My Story traces Mrs. Roosevelt's successful struggle to achieve self-sufficiency, a social conscience, against...
...Said Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the potent House Appropriations Committee last week: "I do not think there is any question but that the insiders in Wall Street brought on the present situation in an attempt to embarrass the Roosevelt administration." *Fast on its feet for once, the New York Stock Exchange month ago began a study of daily average short sales in A.T. & T., General Motors, S.O.N.J., New York Central. U. S. steel, last week announced that so far they were only 22.7% of the total...
...They fought for the right to rule, she fought for the right to love," and "The Prisoner of Zenda" lends itself to the screen in a manner that will not embarrass lovers of Anthony Hope's famous novel. Though we are given a touching and absorbing love story, as the picture unfolds, its spirit of high adventure and not its love sequences is what makes it a top notch film...
...Barrett had played the bit for five days, a lady member of the Georgian Society protested that the impersonation was "not a true picture of Southern women." Miss Barrett was promptly ordered to remove the bit from her act. She agreed: "I'm here to entertain people, not embarrass them...
...this thick plot another ingredient was added when the electrician who had installed Schenzvit's radio committed suicide. In his house the police found charred papers showing Italian writing. For months there have been rumors of Italian agents subsidizing riotous Arab leaders to embarrass Britain. The police, looking next for a "beautiful blonde spy" said to have been in Schenzvit's confidence, declared: "We have crossed the trail of one of the most important and alarming espionage rings in the history of the Near East." Among other things, Schenzvit was "plotting to free Palestine from Britain...