Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though his friend Major George L. Berry carried on the meeting-denouncing the strike as an A. F. of L. plot to embarrass him-John L. Lewis refused to cross the picket line, even declined an offer to cross if the pickets were temporarily withdrawn.* Four days later in Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, while he was in the midst of a wage conference with coal operators, an emissary interrupted him with the disturbing news that two pickets of the A. F. of L.'s Exterminators & Fumigators' Union were parading before the street entrance below. Dismayed Mr. Lewis...
...They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From the moment when the three little Craig girls dash into a hotel dining room to embarrass their father with cries of "Daddy," his romance is doomed. When Judson Craig's young assistant agrees that Precious and her mother (Alice Brady) are a mercenary pair, Joan Craig falls in love with him. When the assistant arranges to have a fake Czech count (Mischa Auer) pose...
...There are intelligent and offensive methods of school visiting. If you go to school to check on your child's progress ... do not embarrass him by talking about him before others. . . . Going to school to criticize is fraught with danger. ... It should never be done on one's first visit. . . . No matter what our motives are for visiting the school, the canons of good taste should govern the call...
...thinking man will favor, in the name of liberalism, scurrilous attacks which originate from no higher cause than to embarrass Harvard at a time when all eyes are turned upon it. The exhibitionists, parading under the guise of "Liberalism" only alienate supporters of their beliefs, rather than enlist the sympathies of free-thinkers. An indictment so thoroughly out of taste and irrelevant can but damage the cause which its promoters claim to advance...
...name of God. and instead everyone has to say salnd [greetings]. A party of laborers from the Workers' General Union even tried to open the doors of the Barcelona insane asylum which would have set free 2,000 lunatics. They made this attempt in an effort to embarrass the rival Anarchists...