Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the painter's point of view, a woman is merely a short-legged animal. In a long skirt . . . the effect of her short legs and disproportionately large head is softened, but cut her off in a horizontal line at her knees and hips and have two awkward Indian club legs dangling below, and you have a problem that is truly impossible...
Heavyset, square-faced, unhandsome, awkward, Henri Beyle had many mistresses, but in his whole life loved only one woman besides his mother: Mathilde Visconti. She was faithful to her husband, and would have none of Henri. Proud of his English, he could not make himself understood in London when he wanted to buy a jar of jam. His books were not successful; the publisher of one of them wrote to him: "The book must be sacred-nobody seemed even to dare to touch it." His friends were not sure of him: his remarks, written and printed, might have been irony...
...almost completely silent Paul McCullough, who is impelled by Mr. Clark's incessant talk to bury his head in a desk drawer ("Just getting a breath of fresh air"). These buffoons and Doris Carson, a very personable girl whose adroitness as a tap dancer is marred only by awkward elbows, are the chief contributors to a pleasant diversion which must still be mainly credited to the exuberant chord progressions of Brother George Gershwin, the deliberately bad or complex rhymes of Brother Ira. Nancy's Private Affair. Minna Gombell, a fulsome beauty, plays the heroine of this romance...
...instant reaction of Statesman Stimson and his colleagues was strongly in the negative, since capital ships have always been "the backbone of the U. S. Navy." They seemed to fear that Mr. MacDonald was trying to put them in the highly awkward position of being forced to defend the right of the U. S. to build the very biggest, most costly, most palpably menacing type of ship...
...awkward, delicate moment- Copperman Guggenheim's first as a diplomat. He rose to the occasion with a declaration that he would neither admit nor deny having received the petition which was handed to the doorman. What action Ambassador Guggenheim then took behind scenes is not known, but two days later President Machado ordered the two editors, Carlos Dellunde of Santiago's La Region and Jose Arroyo Ramos of Santiago's La Independence, released from jail...