Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book that one does not know exactly how or where to place, but it is a book that will make history." And while talking to one of the most aristocratic old ladies that I met I asked her what she thought about it. The question seemed to embarrass her but she said: "I didn't really like the book. But I do hope it will show those northern people what our Negro really is. Of course we realize that we can't do without the Negro here in the South but you northerners have no idea...
...House and the Senate continued to tussle last week over confidential papers relative to the negotiation of the London Naval Treaty. Secretary of State Stimson, on President Hoover's order, continued to withhold the documents from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the ground that their publication might embarrass foreign governments (TIME. June...
Junior Leagues in London, Budapest and Halifax are also seeking membership in the A.J.L.A. The Association intends to consider each application separately, to set up no inflexible international rule which might embarrass, should some undesirable group of outlanders fulfill the technical requirements of membership of an International Association of Junior Leagues...
...colleague's assurance that she admires him, he muscles his way into her boudoir one night and brings her trouble. Best shot: How the laughing lady, meeting at a party the lawyer who, acting for her husband, heckled her at the divorce hearing, uses her wits to embarrass and fascinate...
...chances of becoming the Democratic party's candidate for President of the U. S. in 1932 or 1936. No man of Mr. Young's acumen could have failed to sense the undercurrents of that hearing, with Senators Wheeler of Montana and Dill of Washington trying to embarrass him and Senators Tydings of Maryland and Hawes of Missouri trying to protect him. Perceiving the situation Mr. Young insisted on talking economics, nor did he hesitate to startle the Senators-and many of his conservative business acquaintances-with his frankness, notably his opinion that investment value is a fairer base...