Word: embarrassement
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...tired and irritable because, although this loan would be of far more advantage to the U.S. than it would be to us, American senators have deliberately [tried to] embarrass and finally wreck the British Government, the constitution of which . . . is none of America's business. I also have holes in my utility socks...
Said R.I.A.: American Communists, whose "one principle is Russia first," will do their utmost to foment "class warfare," force the leaders of non-Communist labor organizations into extreme positions, embarrass management and the Administration. "With our stiffening foreign policy toward Russia the hostility will increase. . . . The key to understanding Communist labor activity lies in the basic Party philosophy . . . that the end justifies the means...
...many of his poems fail somewhere to embarrass mature readers for the poet's sake. Critic Cyril Connolly has pointed out that in 63 poems Housman uses the word lad-a dubious word even in England-no less than 67 times. Oxford's Professor H. W. Garrod has objected to the "false-pastoral" quality of many of the poems, the frequent excessiveness of their emotions and situations. Poet Conrad Aiken, provoked by the overenthusiasm of an undergraduate, once described Housman as "a male Ella Wheeler Wilcox."† Housman himself appreciated the parody of himself (by Hugh Kingsmill) which...
...shortage of anthracite coal was over. Robert V. White, president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co. (last year's production: 6 million tons, v. 2.5 million in 1938), warned the coal industry that within two or three months it "will have so much anthracite it may embarrass them...
...spring Jubilee are now being sold by the Jubilee Committee once more, Arthur C. McGill '48, chairman of the Committee, announced last night. With his induction into the United States Naval Reserve due tomorrow, Frederick F. Lamont '48, former holder of the tickets, decided that continued speculation might embarrass his financial resources, and therefore turned them over this week...