Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flood control to Army engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed the Army engineers' efforts at flood-control "the most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said that "our failure [to prevent floods] is a national humiliation." Discussing the Hoover plan (which was chiefly the expenditure of some $150,000,000 to $200,000,000 in the next ten years in strengthening the levee system and supplementing it with spillways...
...German and an Irishman; the first to join the German army, the second the Russian, because of his love for a Muscovite sculptress. Meeting on the muddy Eastern front, they decide to quit the War, and, dressed as women, march off into dark Russia. Embarrassing complications ensue when they blunder into the feminine Battalion of Death and are ordered to strip. Vanity (Leatrice Joy, Charles Ray). A characteristic of De Mille productions is that all display must be super-grand. Is it a ball? The room spreads as vast as Grand Central Terminal. Is the heroine a social lioness...
...Austen Chamberlain and Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston S. Churchill. Ostensibly they were calm, Sir Austen sitting habitually erect and glacial, almost prim; and Mr. Churchill slumped in thought. Yet the extreme nervousness of all three was manifest a little later, when easy-going Mr. Baldwin seemed about to blunder into a damaging admission. Then and there, the Premier was literally yanked down by the coattails. He subsided between the other two Fates until he could collect his thoughts and go on. This little comedy was played in deadly earnest last week ironically enough on Empire...
...Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well" (TIME, April 11, p. 28). One more sad blunder of newspaper Babbittry. If you have a library, and Shakespeare in it, look up the most misquoted line in literature, and reform...
...other side of the stage from this little bit of sunshine stands the greatest blunder mistake error bit of misfortune that has befallen the Vase bond in some little time. Spending a few days in Gotham we decided that when in New York one should do as the others and an attempt was made to view the remains of Messrs Barium and Ringling Brother's Circus Success did not and even the gentle little speculators were far distant from the adjoining sidewalks. Having thus been balked in our attempt to add a see and bit of sunshine to an otherwise...