Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become to seeing streets thronged with such swift and glittering vehicles, the automobile still seems, in a somewhat profound sense, new. It is hard for them to realize that, measured against a man's span of life rather than against the centuries during which men moved by more awkward contrivances, automobiles have existed for a long time. Yet few of the men who built the first automobiles are still alive; Maxwell, Haynes, the Dodge Brothers-these were among the most important and all of them are dead. Last week Death, in his quick chariot, overtook one more. This...
Wilmer Allison, 73, student at the University of Texas, awkward but hard-hitting...
...legs up when he hit him" in the stomach. When the decision went to Risko, Sharkey struck a pose, stared disdainfully at the top balcony. "Yaah," yelled the holder of a $3 balcony seat, "you look like a nickel's worth of holy mackerel." "Honest John" Risko, shifty, awkward, hard-to-hurt, who has beaten Paulino, Delaney and Berlen-bach, may now be matched with Champion James Joseph Tunney...
...nation where wholesale smugglery of arms has produced incessant civil war. The very "Chinese Republic" from which he stands accredited at Paris has vanished in a welter of Chinese anarchy. Therefore his position in respect to a mere five carloads of smuggled machine gun parts was exquisitely awkward. No wonder then that Tcheng Loh betook his gangling, spidery self, last week, to the office of paunchy, sleepy-eyed French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, his friend and frequent counselor...
Thus the adjective American, as applied to the United States alone, has been officially outlawed; but only the most awkward terms have been found to replace it. United Statesian is a monstrosity, in spite of being logical. Some few Mexicans and Nicaraguans, not impressed by the brotherly attitude of their northern fellow-Americans, employ "Gringo" and "pig" in referring to them, but both of these fall short of being satisfactory. A New Englander suggests "Yankee", but Southerners consider this an insult. The vogue of "Uncle Shylock" abroad has been almost as short-lived as that of "Saviors of Democracy...