Word: embarrassment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yugo-Slavia. Friction between Italy and Yugo-Slavia was generated, curiously enough, by the Zaniboni affair. At Trieste the Slavonian newspaper Edinost published accusations to the effect that the whole Zaniboni "plot" had been "framed" by Fascist leaders to embarrass the Opposition and serve as an excuse for further tyranny. Promptly Fascists attacked and severely damaged both the offices of Edinost and the Yugo-Slavian consulate at Trieste...
Feng Yu-hsiang, Chinese Christian soldier, now in control of the territory around Peking and of several provinces just north of the Yangtze River, would start a war by invading Shansi Province. His motives would be: 1) to embarrass the existing official government at the time of the Customs Conference; 2) to capture Shansi, a rich province which has never been completely controlled by any of the leading rival warlords...
...Interior has been charged. During the Taft administration Secretary of the Interior Ballinger found it convenient to resign. From then until "Teapot Dome" there was comparative pease. Now the Senate feels that a committee had best be sent out to scout for possible festering grievances, which might later embarrass the Administration. During the past fortnight the investigation (by the Senate Committee on Public Lands) got under...
...Anti-Semitism spent itself in a monster parade of Hackenkreutzer, and became, for the nonce, quiescent. It was widely believed that the rioting and demonstrations were not really directed against the Zionists, but were merely attempts to embarrass the present Austrian Government with a view to effecting a coup d'etat in favor of Chancellor Seipel, Catholic priest, former Premier...
...Coolidge coyly shrinks from the legitimate motion picture, he blandly confesses that news reels are all right. Now news reels are not all right. If Mr. Coolidge knew how unutterably foolish they have made him appear on occasion, his feelings would be quite reversed. Evidently it doesn't embarrass him to kiss seven fat babies before the steady lens of the camera, but how must it embarrass the babies. Mr. Coolidge has been photographed with everything from a Jersey cow to a Blackfoot Indian. He is the greatest star of the news reel. But isn't it a bit undignified...