Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Kansas. Earl Browder was born in Wichita, 47 years ago. He never lets himself or his public forget it. Without a paternal grandfather who fought the British in the War of 1812, a father who begat six Middlewesterners, Comrade Browder might find it awkward to say, as he often does say: "Communism is 20th Century Americanism...
...column in full. He too made the statement, which he signally failed to support with any evidence, that this country's people have changed in their attitude toward war during recent months. Now you say the same thing; or at least I so interpret your rather awkward sentence; though you do not say whose attitude has been changed, or how many attitudes...
...Since then he has witnessed four Mexican revolutions, once taught military English to Carranza's staff, lectured on Shakespeare to the women of Mexico City's American colony, was held incommunicado by a Mexican general for an unflattering article, is now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America...
...morning last week a surprised Eastern Airlines radioperator at Washington's awkward little airport received a message from an incoming plane...
Approaching the awkward age, Shirley is not quite so dewy as she used to be. Paced by the dark veteran, Bill Robinson, through two simple tap routines, one to a pleasing tune called Toy Trumpet, she seems something more than a doll, something less than a little girl. Her singing, almost free now of the lilting lisp that has three times made her No. 1 Oh-&-Ah cinema champion (TIME, Jan. 3), sounds much like that of any little Sunday-morning radio aspirant...