Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John D. Rockefeller Jr., World's No. 1 Giver, had some advice for United Service Organizations fund solicitors: "Don't use the holdup method. . . . Don't tell people that it is their duty . . . never embarrass a prospect . . . don't ask friends at theaters and teas. . . . Never apologize...
...HABIT OF EMPIRE-Paul Morgan-Harper ($2). An intense mural of hardship, Indian-fighting and Catholic-imperial psychology in colonial New Mexico before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. A little stiff, but exciting and superbly written, its spare, leisured 114 pages should embarrass most space-wasting historical novelists...
...frank the film fails to capitalize on Mr. Astaire's dancing ability. Perhaps it was in an effort not to embarrass Miss Goddard, whose terpsichore is not up to the Astaire standard. However, when the greatest white tap-dancer appears in a film more of his work should be featured and to blazes with chivalry...
...diplomatic wing, last week's moves were also conservative. Following the appointment of one-eyed, genial Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura as Ambassador to the U. S.. the Government elicited from the Army and Navy promises that their extremists would do nothing to embarrass the Admiral in his efforts to win the U. S. back to friendship...
...Government no good in a lame reply that was more a confession than a defense. "It is folly to deny that damage has been done to production," said he, "but I say unhesitatingly that it hasn't eaten to any extent into our productive capacity. It has embarrassed us and will continue to embarrass us." As to shipping losses: "It is true that this is a position much like that of April 1917." April 1917 was the month the U. S. entered World War I and saved Britain from going down...