Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring Jubilee are now being sold by the Jubilee Committee once more, Arthur C. McGill '48, chairman of the Committee, announced last night. With his induction into the United States Naval Reserve due tomorrow, Frederick F. Lamont '48, former holder of the tickets, decided that continued speculation might embarrass his financial resources, and therefore turned them over this week...
...idea timely, Harris flung out: "I asked for your money, not your advice." Despite his bellows and bravura, no body has ever denied Harris' charm when he wants to display it, or his unfailing vigor in the theater. Remarked one friend : "Jed will quarrel with you, he will embarrass you, he will break your heart, he will drive you crazy - but he will al ways be good for the show...
Your articles on bed rest (TIME, April 24; Sept. 11) will unnecessarily embarrass late or substantial sleepers like Robert Benchley, and also physicians whose patients rebel at badly needed restriction of activity...
...John L., the Edmundson rebellion was clearly a plot by Franklin Roosevelt, Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder to embarrass him. He shouted: "Don't Browder and Hillman and Roosevelt know that for 25 years I have met every champion of American finance and industry that American politics has produced...
...immediate "justice." He roared: "It is shameful, it is disgraceful, that these trials have not already been held. . . ." Around Dewey Short rallied some Congressmen who believe the people have an urgent right to know all about Pearl Harbor, and others who believe that a public parceling of blame may embarrass Franklin Roosevelt...