Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book is written for grownups, but it may embarrass parents as well as bachelors. Many a father may feel as tenderly toward his children as Father Hutchinson writes of Simon, but few would attempt to expose such a feeling in print. Some may even resent Parent Hutchinson's performance. Rebecca West, writing last fortnight in the Outlook & Independent, grew caustic at The Book of Simon's expense, said she was staggered at "the increasing disposition of Englishmen to become mothers." Said she, what will Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about...
...Democratic party . . . will steer the legislation of the nation in a straight line toward the goal of prosperity. . . . The 72nd Congress will not be an obstructive body. It will not seek to embarrass the President. ... It has in mind no rash policies. Its legislative leaders are serious men, constructive but not reactionary. . . . They know perfectly well that even enlightened political selfishness demands that business should not be frightened. ... If there are delays, embarrassments and confusion in the 72nd Congress, the fault will lie with the other party failing to join us in a conscientious effort to subordinate politics...
...faith; Gissing believed in purity, and Lawrence in a supreme intimacy. "What Men Want", the other theatre offering, is a superb compendium on the whole question. Disguise it, as the producer attempts to do, with the facial expressions of the sophisticated and the dialogue of a gangster melodrama, embarrass it with one long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots...
...between their statements and the facts . . . contenting themselves with isolated sentences twisted from their context. Their one-sided propaganda has tended to create in the Philippine Islands a state of mind prejudiced to my present usefulness as Vice Governor. . . . Nor should any controversy about my views be permitted to embarrass Philippine-American relations...
...facto; 2) nobody resisted them; 3) each had promised to regularize its status constitutionally. One half of the real reason for quick recognition he explained thus: "I have deemed it wise to act promptly in this matter in order that in the present economic situation our delay may not embarrass the people of these friendly countries. ..." The other half of the reason-the embarrassment such delay "in the present economic situation" would cause U. S. businessmen who sold $210,000,000 worth of goods last year in Argentina-Secretary Stimson did not mention. When he declared at a press conference...