Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Dale Curran's descriptions of theatrical and ballroom jazz are excellent. Because he likes true jazz so well, he is not one-tenth so good at telling about it. He avoids, to be sure, those indulgences in technological slang with which customers embarrass the second trumpeter. But he does let Jeff Walters say what Jeff Walters could never have said: "The world needs beauty...
...these imports, the Westrick proposal is equally simple: the U. S. will give her the money-by continuing to pay $35 an ounce for Gold. Germany now claims to have something like $2,000,000,000 in gold. If she shipped that here, she would add to our surplus, embarrass us. Instead, she will help us put gold back into circulation by putting her $2,000,000,000 fund into a new European-American ("Schachtian") Bank of Intercontinental Settlements. Protected by this margin, the U. S. can then lend Germany, says Westrick, about $5,000,000,000 in gold. This...
...subject of the article itself. The faculty is, no doubt, fair game for the Crimson, and I am sure your whole story was intended to be very amiable and flattering to me. You must realize, however, that the repercussions in the outside press from such a story might seriously embarrass one who holds a very important public office. My own views are so extreme that they are incompatible with political responsibility to an electorate that certainly holds quite different views, so far as I can see. To attribute any sympathy with them to one of our most responsible statesmen...