Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard had had a good punter they might have made a tie out of the rough, awkward game they played with Dartmouth in a storm. The long kicks and occasional runs of Bill Morton of Dartmouth kept the Red-Shirts on the defensive and his touchdown through the left side of the Harvard line was the only one of the game. Dartmouth 7, Harvard...
...London are tense with grim reality. The destruction of this Zeppelin has rarely been rivalled in the whole history of motion picture thrills. Best shot: the Zeppelin nosing through night clouds over London. Not the least talk-provoking thing about Hell's Angels was its producer, young, thin, awkward, very rich, slightly deaf, mentally energetic Howard Hughes, nephew of Novelist Rupert Hughes. His late father controlled a patent on a device necessary to every oil-well drill. With nothing to do. young Hughes became interested in aviation arid the cinema. He produced two successful silent pictures, Two Arabian Knights...
...chief delegate to Naval Conference-" writing his report to the Emperor. Or is it your Hearst-like attempt to make it newsworthy? No Japanese goes down on fours when he is writing letters or reports, not only because it is a poor manner but mainly because it is too awkward position to write small letters. I feel sure, writing his report to his superior, Mr. Wakatsuki takes much more dignified attitude than your description. If he did wrote his report to his Emperor in such position as you say, he certainly must be so helplessly paralyzed at that particular moment...
...British Labor Party's Daily Herald played it down to less than half a column. Britons of all parties seemed uneasy lest a European bloc against Eng land emerge. Since Scot MacDonald is a Socialite on cordial terms with the Second (Socialist) International, he was placed in an awkward fix last week. For French, German and indeed all Socialist papers on the Continent hailed "The European Union" as a braingrandchild of the Internationale. (M. Briand. of course, is a Socialist...
...Notorious Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall...