Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canada as in Great Britain tariff changes go into effect the day after they are announced by the responsible minister, but subject to confirmation by Parliament plus Royal assent. If these are not forthcoming a most awkward series of rebates and payments has to ensue between the state and people who have imported goods meanwhile, but such is the law. At Ottawa last week Finance Minister Charles Avery Dunning raised a terrific commotion in the Dominion Parliament by bringing in a budget the chief feature of which was 500 tariff changes, the whole so controversial that it seems likely...
...Virgin. Anni Rutz, awkward, homely, sweet-tempered daughter of a widowed candy shop proprietress, will play the Virgin this year. Anni is a typist in a saw mill, the first blonde to play Mary in the living memory of Oberammergau. No trouble has she had in fulfilling the obligation of the chosen Virgin to lead a seemly life. For a while it seemed that her younger, much prettier and lazier sister might receive the vote, but the Oberammergau electors are discerning men, not to be influenced by appearances...
Professor Jellinek's apparatus was bulky, awkward, dangerous. It was necessary to send fairly powerful currents through the body to guarantee success. His prediction: that with the basic problem once solved he would soon simplify his device, make it safe...
...late campaign I found myself in a very awkward situation. I could not issue any publication, because of my being on the bench and vet the New York...
...Democratic victory of 6,421 votes in such a traditionally Republican district set political soothsayers to work. Republicans, badly jolted, attempted, in an awkward unconvincing way, to belittle the election's significance, to explain it away as a local prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding...