Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treatment is the impossibility of expecting such a frail and fallible institution as a committee of the faculty to apply a rule which in itself may be inoffensive. This, for example, worries Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard who fears that he University is going to lose its emprotorgued, awkward, loose-Haibed, ill-groomed" Abraham Lincolns...
...Brown's antipathy to women was such that he very seldom allowed them on board, though he often tolerated male visitors. To one woman who took off her hat he cried: "Put it on! Only liars take off their hats!" In the awkward pause which followed, the visitor twiddled her thumbs. "Madam," said Mr. Brown, "I do not know what your signal means, so I cannot answer...
...Division of Chemistry is hardly flattered by this morning's very badly written account of it, which pretends to be a guide to concentrators. Aside from the awkward and inelegant English of the author, his impressions of Chemistry as a science or a profession leave much to be desired. He has selected 9 of the 37 courses of the Department, considered these elementary ones in a trifling way, and goes so far as to say that "there are other courses, some of them advanced" and vainly attempts to conceal his ignorance of them by stating that space does not permit...
...Poland as a buttress against anti-French influence on the Council from Germany. Chancellor Luther was daily instructed from Berlin that he must withdraw the German application for League membership if the Council was going to be packed against Germany. Sir Austen Chamberlain found himself in a still more awkward position. The British press flayed him daily because he did not insist that, whatever happened, Germany must be got within the League and the Locarno Pacts nailed down. Unfortunately, Sir Austen was obliged to admit, tacitly at least, that he had secretly committed the British Government to support the claims...
Mama Loves Papa. A wobbly little comedy about marriage appeared under this awkward title and was not very fervently applauded. The two young things of the title phrase stumbled innocently and separately into a wicked cocktail party in the city. It took two acts of explanation to restore them to each other's arms. The presence in the cast of John E. Hazzard, bibulous and bald comedian, was often helpful...