Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Georgios III, his wife Marina being that most popular of Greek royalties. Thus last week Marina's Cousin Georgios II had need of what every doubtful candidate requires, a good & loving wife. Notoriously he has the opposite, and last week ex-Queen Elizabeth of Greece proceeded deliberately to embarrass her Gorgeous Georgios as much as she could by causing the following to be inserted among ordinary court notices at Bucharest, where her buck-toothed Brother Carol is King of Rumania...
...most anxious for the "pink slip" law's repeal last week was one whom, as a taxpayer, it could not embarrass. Anyone may turn to a World Almanac, learn that the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue gets $10,000 a year. But Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering knows that the job of compiling the pink slips would put a tremendous extra burden on his Bureau, cost the Government some...
Herbert Hoover had barely unpacked his trunks in the White House when Prohibition's most spectacular international incident arose to embarrass him. Off the coast of Louisiana U. S. Coast Guard cutters chased the rum-running Canadian schooner I'm Alone 200 miles out to sea, there shelled and sank her (TIME, April 1, 1929). One seaman, a French citizen, was killed. British and Canadian newspapers roared with pain. U. S. Wets bubbled over in frothy indignation. Terse memoranda flew between London, Ottawa and Washington. Strenuously the U. S. State Department sought to defend...
...Communists bobbed up at Tsingteh and kidnapped Mr. and Mrs. Stam and Daughter Helen Priscilla. One morning last week the Communists paraded the two missionaries through the muddy streets of a nearby village, then slashed off their heads with a great curved sword, supposedly in a shrewd effort to embarrass Generalissimo Chiang. A Chinese Christian pastor found the Stams' baby girl alive in a deserted house, a $10 bill and several clean diapers tucked inside her blanket. Chinese mothers volunteered milk until the infant could be taken to the Wuhu hospital where she was born three months...
...this democratic age to engrave the head of George V on a $1,000 bill would profoundly embarrass His Majesty. Last week the King's good friend, Canada's rich and pious Premier Richard Bedford Bennett, prepared to release from the Bank of Canada early next year a whole series of new banknotes with the following denominations, portraits...