Word: awkwardly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when his U. S. publishers urged then unknown Englishman Nicolson to account for himself he replied: "This is very awkward. We English are a shy race. I am all for giving you information about myself, were it not that it sounds egotistic and rather snobbish. . . . My father is Lord Carnock, one of the founders of our entente with France, a friend of King Edward. ... In 1913, I married Victoria Sackville-West, only child of Lord and Lady Sackville of Knole, Kent who has written things of greater merit than anything I have done myself...
...odds were a mistake. The stocky, 38-year-old Birmingham dentist who was his opponent in the final won the championship in 1927. An awkward stylist who plays his shots like a dub trying to cure a slice, with his left foot far in front of him, William Tweddell was able enough last week to finish the morning round only three down. In the afternoon Little kept him waiting at the tee and then out of embarrassment at this faux pas began to play sloppy golf. The doctor started creeping up and at the 30th hole, the match was even...
Director John Ford has two salient qualities-a sharp objective style and the ability to make Victor McLaglen (usually cast as an awkward stooge for Edmund Lowe) reveal his formidable talents as an actor. Both were brilliantly displayed last year in The Lost Patrol. In The Informer, they become more noteworthy than ever in a picture that no sensible cinemaddict will want to miss. Good shot: Gypo giving a beggar a pound note, after making sure that he is blind...
...Jack Neylan. As to whether his power is for good or evil, answers will agree only in their superlatives. To New Dealers he is the "most dangerous" enemy in the land. (After the 1932 election he quickly turned on the Brain Trust denouncing its members as an "intellectual awkward squad.") To left-wing Labor he is the "most dangerous" of Conservatives. (He, more than any other one man broke the general strike in San Francisco last summer.) To followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless...
Nevertheless, with the maternal support of France, even then seeking security, the awkward Russian giant was soon again admitted to the diplomatic drawing-rooms of Europe. The wounds of 1905 had not healed, nor were they over to heal, but the pallor of the collosus was easily forgotten at the sound of his booming voice. Even Mother France continually pumping her own financial blood into his arteries, was charmed and deceived by roars of rage and hunger. From Mongolia and Afghanistan and Bulgaria these cries came. Tomorrow at ten Professor Karpovitch will classify and interpret them in Harvard...