Word: tactless
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...Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems to have offended him, but this tactless reminder was too much for even his cynicism: thereafter it was distinctly understood that the Anthem should never be played in his presence...
Today We Live (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). On the day that she hears her father has been killed in the War, Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford) makes the acquaintance of an exceedingly tactless young American who has come to England to rent her house. Shortly after she has sent her brother, Ronnie, and her fiance. Claude, off to man a torpedo-launch together on the coast of France, she finds out that she really loves not Claude (Robert Young) but the American, Richard Bogard (Gary Cooper). The troubles that arise from this situation are what you might expect in the first...
...extremely tactless," said Lord Marley, "for the British Government to make a payment and then say it was not a payment under the old agreement. . . . America should now hold out a carrot to the European donkey, promising [debt] cancellation if America's demands for disarmament are carried...
...certain corn flour produced in his Illinois district. He worked hard getting his constituents bigger & better pensions, dipped into the pork barrel for public buildings, joined log-rolling expeditions for local waterway developments. He denounced Theodore Roosevelt for the Panama "grab," flayed him as a "mob leader." Loud and tactless, he was set down and snubbed as a radical ranter by conservative Republicans and Democrats alike. Tariff Fire- In 1908 Representative Rainey struck fire from the Republican tariff. A traditional low-tariff Democrat, he charged that U. S. manufacturers, protected by the tariff, were selling watches cheaper abroad than...
...President Hoover. Students in the University repeat this new confidence that is felt over the country. To disrupt this feeling by an administrative change would be bound to freeze the entire financial system of the nation. Since the time of John Quincy Adams, there has been no president so tactless and as unattractive as Hoover. However, he has the ability to lay great plans and to accomplish important measures for the good of the country...