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Word: awkwardness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captious might complain that there are no trained seals in the show, but there is everything else. Two or three of the acts are very good: Walter Nilsson cavorting madly on a monocycle, Hal Sherman pantomimes dancing adroitly while looking as awkward as Charlie Chaplin. But most of the acts are very bad: all the skits, a Turkish harem number, a roguish sister act performed by two girls each of whom looks like the other's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musicals in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Corcoran & Cohen. These persons, with one or two more (see col. 2) constitute what in President Jackson's time was called the Kitchen Cabinet. No name more colorful than the Inner Circle has yet been given this Roosevelt II group - except General Hugh Johnson's accurate but awkward "White House Janizaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

...awkward as a young colt: a nostalgic account of how everything turns out all right for virtually everyone in a little New England town in the 1920s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...books. Guesses have ranged from the suggested, that here is a modest author, to, that here is a pseudonym used to avoid damaging the writer's reputation in some solemn field. The books themselves give few clues. They are written in a dry, travel-talk style, as awkward and as full of irrelevant observations as a letter home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Central American Anecdote | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...seldom meet, when out to walk, Either the Orchid or the Auk. The awkward Auk is only known To dwellers in the Auk-tic zone, While Orchids can be found in legions, Within the equatorial regions. So if by chance you travel on The Lena or the Amazon, Be certain of the temperature Or you will make mistakes I'm sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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