Word: embarrassement
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...pocketbook Or rob a widow's mite The Horrible Hemingways - That's We! When aged Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny sought to become a Hemingway, he was firmly blackballed. Undaunted, he gave a party. Knowing that the object of the Horrible Hemingways is to insult, dis tress, embarrass and in all ways annoy one's acquaintances as much as possible, he had the floor waxed so smooth that no one could stand up. He was elected. His daughter-in-law and granddaughter are also members...
...commanding, the nominating convention was still a year away and much could happen in that time. Alfred Emanuel Smith had yet to speak his mind on candidates. John Jacob Raskob's purposes were still obscure. A New York legislative committee had twelve months to investigate Tammany Hall and embarrass its candidate. None of the "favorite sons"-Ohio's Baker and Cox, Maryland's Ritchie, Arkansas' Robinson, Virginia's Byrd, Illinois' Lewis, Tennessee's Hull-had so much as hinted that Governor Roosevelt's candidacy was too far "out in front" to beat...
...done. There has been honeycombing and pinching and that sort of thing. And even among the most talked-of companies, the so-called big companies. ... I am not going to mention names of all of the companies in this room that have cut wages; I do not want to embarrass them; but I think it is a pretty cheap sort of business...
...letter to Secretary of the Navy Adams he deplored that his remarks before Philadelphia's Contemporary Club-in which he told a story of Prime Minister Mussolini's streaking heedlessly on after running down a small child with his raceabout (TIME, Feb. 9)-had "caused embarrassment to the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would be "confined to the limits of the four walls." Instead of court-martial, the Navy Department then decided to administer this small slice of humble pie: ''You are informed . . . that the Navy Department cannot express too clearly...
...embarrass the Democratic ticket, in 1920 the Republican party promised that it would bring to trial all Wartime grafters. No sooner had the Ohio Gang settled in Washington than its leader, Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, began handing out indictments right & left. One of his victims was Benedict Crowell, potent Cleveland contractor and mining engineer, onetime (1917-20) Assistant Secretary of War, Wartime director of munitions. In 1922 he was accused of fraud in connection with cantonment construction and military supplies. The court considered his indictment a political move, threw it out. But not until last week was Mr. Crowell...