Word: ticklishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parity in destroyers is to be struck at around 150,000 tons for each Great Power, and parity in submarines at roughly 88,000 tons. In the more ticklish category of cruisers the U. S. is asking 315,000 tons and Britain 339,000 but this too is supposed to represent "parity" because the U. S. cruiser fleet will have a larger proportion of heaviest 10,000-ton, 8-inch cruisers than the British...
Naming princes is a ticklish task. On account of the Irish it was necessary to include "Patrick" among the seven given names of Edward of Wales. On account of the Slovenes plump Queen Marie of Jugoslavia was obliged, last week, to select a Slovene appellation as the principal name of her lately born third son (TIME, July...
...avoidance of controversial subjects. They positively dared not risk having debates of any heat for fear of warming up international animosities likely to disrupt the work of the Second Dawes Committee at Paris (see above) which is trying to revise the Dawes Plan. As a result of this ticklish situation- with billions in the balance-the achievements of the League statesmen at Geneva last week were only these: 1) They debated ad infinitum and post-poned to next June for further debate the so-called "minorities question." 2) They applauded announcements by Germany's fat Dr. Stresemann and Poland...
Marble is the aristocrat of sculptural materials. Like an aristocrat it is sumptuous but brittle. Subjected to undue stresses it splits and cracks. Thus the transportation of marble is ticklish, and cannot be done with casual maneuvering as can steel girders. Sculptors exercise prodigious care in moving marble statuary from studios to sites. One fissure will ruin the labor of years, and one fissure may be produced by the slip of one gawkish moving...
...representatives of 28 Protestant denominations. It has a constituency of about 20,000,000 members. Bishop McConnell's fame as a religious leader rests largely upon his battles for better labor conditions in Pittsburgh mills and mines. His thoughts, utterances run in liberal channels. Recently he posed the ticklish question: "Is not this tendency to deify Jesus more heathen than Christian?" Bishop McConnell seemed to think it was. Dr. Grant, shocked, responded with another question : "If that is Bishop McConnell's position, then the thing that concerns me as a Presbyterian minister is, how can our Presbyterian Church...