Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starter, he has far transcended tinkering gadgets. He is GM's visionary magician, perched on a high stool whose legs have grown longer and longer as the business has expanded, gazing into the future with the crystal ball of pure scientific theory. Forgiven and forgotten is his classic blunder of ten years ago, the air-cooled Chevrolet motor which cost GM 31 cool millions. Nowadays most improvements in cars are originated by independent inventors, developed by partsmakers. Mr. Kettering and his research staff have carried GM into rich fields beyond the automobile business. He was largely responsible...
Just, however, as there would be something incongruous in Dink Stover's making his hideous blunder of giving two girls a lift in a straight-eight roadster, so Frank will look just a thought uncomfortable in the polo coat and pleated trousers of contemporary collegiate fashion. While he flourished mightily in an era when undergraduates sat along the campus fence and sang "Integer Vitae" and "Freshmen, Wake" of an evening, he could never be quite at home in the Dizzy Club while on a Manhattan week end, or participating in a perfumed and platinum Whitney Avenue cocktail party. A more...
...steps, till he was tackled on Yale's 20-yd. line. This time, his mistake was not important: the next play was another pass, Kadlic to Fairman, which made a touchdown. Peter Fortune kicked the goal. With five minutes left, there was just time for the blunder or the brilliant play that usually decides Princeton-Yale games. Neither one occurred and the score was still tied, 7 to 7, when the game ended...
...nation-wide crime wave, lashed into destructive fury by the power of gangland born of a monstrous legal blunder, has created such a demand for severity in law enforcement that there has grown with that demand a laxity in observance by law officers of those rights which it is fatal to ignore, even though that ignoring results in the entrapment of the guilty." Lawyer Lilleston of Kansas was the comic relief. He called himself "the forgotten...
Sixteen Augusts ago a California blunder cost Charles Evans Hughes the Presidency. On the eve of a hot Republican primary he carried his campaign into the State where Governor Hiram Johnson was seeking a Senate nomination. Though for hours they were under the same hotel roof at Long Beach, Nominee Hughes and the Governor did not meet. Johnsonites were infuriated at what they called Nominee Hughes's deliberate snub to their candidate. In November Governor Johnson was duly elected to the Senate?but California went Democratic with just enough electoral votes to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House another...