Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether Authoress Yurlova's story is embroidered, it pales into romantic unreality beside the photographs that illustrate it. Among its gory snapshots of corpses cluttering the snow, frozen into the many awkward postures of Death, one stands out as the most ghastly yet published in any war book. It is labeled an execution in Kazan. Backed against the rough-hewn wall of a log cabin eleven men, most in underclothes, barefoot, one half-naked, are standing in the snow. The volley (whose echo Authoress Yurlova compares to "an immensely swift flight of pigeons across the yard") has just crashed...
...Chicago Dec. 22, when he was called into the office of Vice President D. B. Colyer and discharged for four reasons: 1) he had not secured proper permission to attend NRA hearings; 2) the company assumed he had severed connections; 3) his activities and utterances in Washington made it awkward to have him on the payroll; 4) he had preferred charges of intimidation against Vice President E. P. Lott and Chief Pilot H. T. ("Slim") Lewis. The subject of Behncke's Washington activities remained unsettled. It was raised when big airlines replaced obsolete 110-m.p.h. planes with new airliners...
...study." Few U. S. university presidents have dared speak out thus frankly about the social hurdle which has been set up before their overburdened medical schools. Unable to eliminate brilliant applicants on the basis of marks, some medical school boards now weed them out for pimply faces, loud voices, awkward manners or unpressed pants...
...annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member of an unromantic generation, his typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene's awkward moment. Thus he remains true to the old flag after all. For anyone who likes travel books and for many who do not, Brazilian Adventure will be a refreshingly new departure. Author Fleming admits in his foreword that his book differs "from most books about expeditions . . . also from most books...
...Massachusetts legislature. But as it stands, it would permit beer in the houses only if separate tables were set up for those over twenty-one, and all others were rigidly barred from them by the dining hall administration. Little imagination is required to see that this would be an awkward and an undesirable rule; the spectacle of a headwaitress making discreet inquiries of even the least of her wards, the hand raised in warning, and the embarrassment that would ensue, are enough to mark this expedient for oblivion...