Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...urging I would do in favor of the Davis-Bryan ticket, of course, would be based upon my own recollections and my knowledge of my father. I can't imagine that the opinions of myself-once the quiet, awkward small girl who received a salary of 25 cents a month to make his bed every morning-have any real bearing on the present political events. My father was then to me the same omnipotent authority, the final court of justice, that he remains in my mind today. I believe he would make a good President, because I have never...
...author, who now lives in Berlin. Once Gorky opposed the Bolsheviki; then he admired them, and became one himself. Later he got disgusted, and by a trick managed to leave Russia. Biased Bolsheviki think he is a gawk; hence the expression, "Gawky Gorky." Of course, Maxim Gorky is neither awkward nor stupid, as War Lord Leon Trotsky pointed out in an inflammable speech...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK−The "Awkward Age" engagingly revived by the Provincetown Players, with all indigenous sentiments, asides, characters−and chairs painted on the rolled-up curtain...
...Reds. In the centre of the delegation fluttered from a pole the faded red flag; on the top of the pyramid Kalinin received it and it found its way to a deputation of Moscow workers waiting to receive it. Then there were a number of speeches followed by an awkward skit on recognition of Russia, which attempted to show, not without much buffoonery, how anxious the foreign Powers were to accord recognition...
FASHION, OR LIFE IN NEW YORK- The Provincetown Players' diverting revival of a comedy of the 40's, with all the sentiments, asides, songs, characters, indigenous to that engaging "Awkward...