Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister let it ooze out that he contemplates a visit to the U. S., presumably to borrow enough to pay the $9,000,000. But, in the U. S., he will be confronted with the matter of $18,000,000 owing to the U. S, Government; and, not unlikely, awkward questions will be asked concerning the money which Rumania must raise to pay for 50 new Fokker airplanes which she recently ordered from the Fokker Aircraft Manufacturing...
...Paris, one Marie Lenay, soubrette, was dancing with an awkward man. He stepped on her foot. She glared. Again he stumbled over her. She hissed a warning to him. Once more the dolt set his boot upon her slipper. Mile. Lenay drew a knife from her stocking, thrust it into his vitals. Over his prostrate form, while the gendarmes closed around her, she said: "Learn about dancing before you come to me again...
...Louis Silvers, when he asked me to come out and help him, warned me that they might seem awkward. All men choruses, even in good shows, don't have the graces of the girls. But these boys have. They learn in a minute, too. And above all, they work. Most girls would want $150 for the work those boys do. The boys are tickled to death to be able to make the chorus...
...Those facts involve Mr. Warren's connection with business concerns, which might place him in the awkward position, in the event of his becoming Attorney General, of having to bring suit against corporations with which he has until very recently been intimately associated...
...wire, he observes the world with a stolid papier-maché curiosity from the floor of some museum. He is observed with awe and agitation by the restless seekers after cultural novelties. Now at last has the brontosaurus come to life. He is abroad in his native state, awkward, menacing and gigantically saurian. He can be viewed by the restless seekers after stimulation. In short, he is in the cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like to marry. His girl tells him he must do big things. Eventually, they...