Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leadership on the other side of the chamber," bitterly cried Leader Robinson, "has contributed to this effort to make the Senate ridiculous in order to embarrass the incoming administration...
...after Office Girl (Sally Eilers) has married Boss (Ralph Bellamy) the triangle is rearranged as a maudlin contest between Bellamy and Helen Vinson for custody of their violin-playing prodigy daughter (Karol Kay). The picture as cut for its Hollywood preview included a scene which for its power to embarrass the audience took rank with anything recently produced by the cinema-Miss Eilers pressing to her lips various portions of a layette, including baby-shoes. Her baby died soon after birth, filling her with jealousy of her husband's exwife. To conquer her jealousy she cooperates with her husband...
Since 90% of the German electorate decisively rejected von Papenism at the polls last month, the President's stipulation could not have been fulfilled by any German last week. Plainly it was a trap to embarrass Leader Hitler and stamp him with the stigma of having "failed" to form a Cabinet. Realizing this, ex-Corporal Hitler decided to drop his negotiations with ex-Fieldmarshal von Hindenburg, told his aides to draft a final letter to the President and hied himself to Berlin's State Opera, enjoyed a rollicking performance of Die Meistersinger...
...summer's Bonus march to Washington, blamed "the insistent and excessive demands of World War veterans" for the G. A. R.'s failure to pass legislation upping Civil War widows' pensions. The committee then curiously added: "We assured him [President Hoover] the Grand Army, of all organizations, would not embarrass the President of the United States." A resolution endorsing full payment of the Bonus to members of the American Legion was unsympathetically tabled on the ground that it was none of the G. A. R.'s business...
...Governor. Governor Roosevelt has made Colonel Lehman his political heir, will try to force his nomination at the Democratic State convention. Force may be necessary because of the hostile attitude of Tammany Hall, not toward Colonel Lehman personally but toward his sponsor. To head off the Lehman candidacy and embarrass Governor Roosevelt, Tammany bosses have threatened to put James John ("Jimmy") Walker into the contest, if he is removed as New York's Mayor. An outside Democratic candidate is Albany's tall, gangling Mayor John Boyd Thacher...