Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...southern Democrat, found himself in an awkward position just before Christmas that year. He was far from home and had been so busy with his Field Artillery, which he organized and shepherded through the St. Mihiel offensive, the Meuse and the Argonne, that social duties slipped his mind. Probably there was no book of etiquette at hand in his spare military headquarters. Possibly it would not have helped him anyway. A delicate question faced him. A great Democrat, he had no Christmas present for the greatest Democrat, President Woodrow Wilson. The shops around Luxembourg were bare. He particularly needed...
...Dawes. In the non-Administration section of the party, Charles Gates Dawes remained silent too, adding nothing to his awkward insistence that he is not a candidate, that he is for his friend, Mr. Lowden...
...Vare's seat was further with in the room. He walked in and sat upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
Jacob Epstein lounged about the gallery with an aggressive nervousness while such people peered at his bronze sculpture. His face, abnormal, fierce, flatulent, was twisted into expressions of politeness when people were introduced to him. His oversized hands and heavy feet, his awkward body bulging in its loose shrouds, made him look very much out of place among all those lovers of art. But Sculptor Epstein did not appear disconcerted. Had the history of his career flashed through his mind, he would have recalled how he had left America in 1902, how for three years he had studied in Paris...
...Awkward usage for the editorial page of the World. "With reference to the death penalty hanged in preferred...