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Word: embarrassment (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: MANNERS IN CHURCH | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Drenching | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Emotional Rats | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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