Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newell Paige, a rising young surgeon, was assisting his admired senior, Dr. Endicott. at a difficult operation. Dr. Endicott was more worried about the tottering market than about the job in hand. He made a fatal blunder; the patient died. Paige, horrified, took the blame, left town, threw up his career, changed his name, brooded, talked to his dog. When he met the dead patient's daughter it was mutual love at a glance, but she found out who he was. Their ways parted-it seemed, finally. But thanks to a crippled old clergyman, who was a perfect dynamo...
...recall in a previous performance that the lines of the play were pearls of wit, and trite not at all. This time I was able to rescue just a few from the crowd, particularly this throaty declamation, with gestures, "You a man? God made a blunder." The rough simplicity of the ballad, "She is more to be pitied than censured (for a man was the cause of it all)", likewise struck my fancy...
...that the venerable Borah has introduced a resolution into the Senate demanding an exhaustive senatorial investigation of the persecution of religion in Mexico, it appears that America has again committed a diplomatic blunder by not observing whose toes are being awkwardly tread upon. This characteristic American attitude of interference in Latin-American affairs, many foreign observers agree, is another step in the direction of making us the most cordially hated nation on earth...
...horrendous clerical blunder (in picture-filing), apologies to Author Neumann, Poet Bynner, TIME'S readers...
...some form, if only to have someone erase the literary effluvia of small boys and morons from lavatory walls. At what point this zeal must be curbed to avoid interference with genuine art is a difficult problem which Boston has assuredly not successfully solved. They made a real blunder some years ago in the matter of "Strange Interlude," and they attracted some noisy attention in the matter of Droiser's "American Tragedy" (the book, not the movie). Granting the extremely doubtful point that the second was "art," do you know of any other genuinely great offering shut off from...