Word: blush
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debts, armaments, tariff barriers, trade restrictions, silver, currency. On it Edouard Herriot, France's chunky special envoy who quickly tires of standing, eased his short legs while he discussed his country's need for political security with a U. S. President whose good French made M. Herriot blush for his bad Eng- lish. On it sat large-framed Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, whose eagerness to strike a quick trade & tariff bargain with the U. S. had to be restrained by President Roosevelt. On it next week were to sit Guido Jung, Italy's Minister...
Midwestern audiences, aware that they were fortunate to be hearing orchestras at all this year, wanted nothing more exciting. For them it was enough to lionize their conductors. Cincinnati praised Goossens for breaking tradition, allowing part of his programs to be broadcast. Detroit's ovation made Gabrilowitsch blush. Cleveland was extra cordial to Sokoloff since this is probably his last season with the orchestra he has conducted since its infancy.* Chicago's welcome to Stock showed clearly that it had not forgotten how near it came to losing its orchestra over a dispute with the Musicians' Union...
...League were wondering which of his figures Herr Grosz would resemble. The new teacher who appeared at the Art Students' League last week was a mild, fine-featured little man with precise measuring gestures. His face was ruddy, slightly chubby, kindly, with serious brown eyes, an occasional nervous blush, a baldish brow. His clothes were those of any prosperous American at a baseball game. This, no monster, was George Grosz, 38, normal citizen, husband & father. He resembled none of his subjects, save for teeth slightly muskrat. He was largely unaware of the Sloan-Lie difficulties...
...would like to know who authorized you to speak for all Southerners and circulate around the world through the medium of your magazine that we blush with shame when labeled "Yankee...
Astonishing as are the phenomena of American public life, the pyjama Senators and boy-friend Mayors, the antics of the war veterans seem to put to the blush the wildest acts of self-seeking politicians. In the West the contingents Washington-bound have commandeered trains, interfered with the passage of United States' mail, and forced police to resist them openly. In New York they have stolen a ferry, and intimidated government officials into providing them with transportation. The threat of violence, always only implied, but ever present, has everywhere extorted food and shelter from the communities through which the veterans...