Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inept words and the speech. But last week newsmen got wind of something else. This was a confidential memorandum on foreign affairs which Wallace had written to the President in July. Someone in Wallace's Commerce Department-doubtless thinking that this was an opportune time to embarrass the President-had given a copy to Columnist Drew Pearson, who intended to publish it. PM's I. F. ("Izzy") Stone somehow got a copy too. Other newspapermen demanded to see it. When the press roar became unbearable, bewildered Presidential Secretary Charlie Ross told Commerce to release the letter, and Commerce...
...tired and irritable because, although this loan would be of far more advantage to the U.S. than it would be to us, American senators have deliberately [tried to] embarrass and finally wreck the British Government, the constitution of which . . . is none of America's business. I also have holes in my utility socks...
Said R.I.A.: American Communists, whose "one principle is Russia first," will do their utmost to foment "class warfare," force the leaders of non-Communist labor organizations into extreme positions, embarrass management and the Administration. "With our stiffening foreign policy toward Russia the hostility will increase. . . . The key to understanding Communist labor activity lies in the basic Party philosophy . . . that the end justifies the means...
...many of his poems fail somewhere to embarrass mature readers for the poet's sake. Critic Cyril Connolly has pointed out that in 63 poems Housman uses the word lad-a dubious word even in England-no less than 67 times. Oxford's Professor H. W. Garrod has objected to the "false-pastoral" quality of many of the poems, the frequent excessiveness of their emotions and situations. Poet Conrad Aiken, provoked by the overenthusiasm of an undergraduate, once described Housman as "a male Ella Wheeler Wilcox."† Housman himself appreciated the parody of himself (by Hugh Kingsmill) which...
...shortage of anthracite coal was over. Robert V. White, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. (last year's production: 6 million tons, v. 2.5 million in 1938), warned the coal industry that within two or three months it "will have so much anthracite it may embarrass them...