Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flat-faced, awkward King Levinsky Chicago heavyweight pugilist and onetime fishmonger, encouraged by the shrieks and squeals of his sister and manager Mrs. Lena Levy: a ten-round bout against slick-haired, skilful Tommy Loughran, who was three times knocked clown by Levinsky's right hand; in Manhattan...
...paper money gold coins. France mints no new gold; Great Britain minted none after the War (even while her pound was on the Gold Standard); Germany mints no gold marks. In France the state bank is obliged by law to give gold in exchange for paper only in the awkward form of gold bars weighing 25 Ib. each, costing $8,700. Private European banks traffic in gold coins at a premium as in Poland...
...Timothy Hale" was young, poor, gawky, with big ambitions and no prospects when "Susan" first met him. He was reader to a Manhattan publisher; she was editorial factotum on a woman's magazine. He courted her with picnics, omnivorous enthusiasm, awkward gestures: finally she gave in, married him. At first they had a grand time, especially when Tim's stories had begun to make enough so that they could travel. But from the day his God's Own Country (Main Street) became a best seller dated all of Susan's troubles. Success inevitably went to his head and he further...
...Results, All summer Saxony's toiling 120 have marched out to her dikes each day in squads. Sometimes waist deep in water, they have driven piles with heavy mallets, carted sand and stones in awkward wooden trays. Cost to the Saxon Government has worked out at 3 marks per day. Of this, 50 pfennigs represents the man's wage, plus 2 marks 50 pfennigs for his food. As former Saxon army barracks were used, and as the 120 washed their own bedding, the cost of lodging them was figured...
...apparently withered. They did not see much of each other afterwards, though Ellen Terry later played the lead in one of Shaw's plays (Captain Brassbound's Conversion). Says Shaw: "She was always a little shy in speaking to me; for talking, hampered by material circumstances, is awkward and unsatisfactory after the perfect freedom of writing between people who can write." This paper love-affair was the symbol of a sincere affection, but the endearments they used might be misconstrued. Shaw says both exaggerated-he from ingrained Irish chivalry, she from stage convention. He called her "dearest...