Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plainly the appearance of the Cahill Report, last week, was one more instance of the fact that the British Foreign Office continues to blunder by letting its officials do, time and time again, just the inconvenient and pettily annoying thing which will rile the Empire's good and faithful ally, France...
...sight of these terms, two outcries arose in the U. S. press. Dr. Cumberland's was the most imperialistic scheme yet devised, said one outcry; and what a blunder for the State Department to have published such a scheme just when Mr. Hoover was setting forth to dispel the U. S. Empire idea in Latin-America...
...battlefield. There is nothing humorous in using such an address as a medium for alleged wit, no matter how superficially clever the parody may appear to the Ivy Orator himself. Many of us present in the Stadium that afternoon were grieved to hear a Harvard man make such a blunder. We were delighted that the elements reduced his audience to a minimum...
...Liberal Daily Mail thought that Sir Austen had committed a "Himalayan blunder";* and David Lloyd George, famed Liberal Party leader declared: "The Government has given away its whole position with regard to the immense reserves of Continental armies. ... It is a complete betrayal of the cause of the peace of the world...
...world press was just on the scent of the Anglo-French negotiations by Sir Austen himself, when he committed the crowning blunder of formally alluding to them in an indirect, tantalizing manner before the House of Commons. These indefensibly premature remarks, amounting to an open boast that he had done something clever in secret which he was not yet prepared to reveal, placed upon Sir Austen Chamberlain personally an imputation of sheer obtuseness which his political enemies are now loudly tooting up and down England, in view of the approaching General Election...