Word: embarrass
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR STORY ON SENATOR VANDENBERG [TIME, Oct. 2] BEST REPORT OF U. S. POLITICS IN WAR CRISIS I HAVE READ. BUT DON'T YOU EMBARRASS THE SENATOR FROM MICHIGAN BY CLAIMING HE IMPLICITLY BELIEVES J. P. MORGAN HELPED ENGINEER AND RUN WORLD WAR I FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT AND THAT MORGAN IS IN THE SENATOR'S OPINION A MERCHANT OF DEATH. ALONE OF THE SENATE MUNITIONS COMMITTEE VANDENBERG CONSPICUOUSLY AND WARMLY SHOOK HANDS WITH MORGAN . . . AND THERE ARE POSSIBLY MORE PICTURES IN EXISTENCE OF VANDENBERG AND MORGAN TOGETHER THAN THERE ARE OF MIDGETS SITTING ON MORGAN...
...Remo, Italy, Maria Piombo, 39, stalked up and down swank Empress Boulevard wearing a sandwich board which read: "I want a husband, even a used one." Arrested, she admitted that she only wanted to embarrass a man who had jilted...
...Perkins.* This work not only deals with manners in church but tells how to address a Cardinal, archbishop, bishop; what to give a priest or an ordinand as a present (a check is proper); when a Catholic may break rules against meat eating (example: a dinner where abstinence would embarrass the host); how a Catholic may best argue birth control, Communism, etc., with a non-Catholic. Excerpts...
...such certificates is outstanding. SEC charged that they are a means of "obtaining money ... by means of untrue statements" such as that their purchase is similar to starting a savings account. Timetrust's President Meredith Parker retorted that SEC was using "unlawful and unwarranted tactics" to embarrass the Giannini family...
...control and modify abnormal behavior, extensive knowledge concerning the bases for temperamental differences is required. Why does one child have a temper tantrum when in the same situation another child remains composed? . . . Why does Miss Jones embarrass her instructor with an hysterical outbreak [on] receiving a poor grade, whereas Miss Smith accepts failure all too philosophically...