Word: blundered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...savagely in the sixth and seventh which was just what Sharkey, a smart counter-fighter, wanted. He moved away, boxing beautifully, stiffening his left arm against Schmeling's head, shifting so skilfully that Schmeling, in his eagerness to land a solid punch, several times fell into the strategic blunder of leading with his right. Schmeling likes to let his opponents work hard in the early rounds, cut them down slowly when they are tired. In the eighth round against Sharkey, he began to increase his pace as his admirers expected. Blocking punches with his gloves and el bows...
...Kitty (June Clyde) as an actress and then of the Cohens when the son Melville becomes a theme song writer. The Kellys, as nouveaux riches, fancy themselves disgraced by the Cohens, who follow them to Hollywood. Miss Edna May Oliver could do this to perfection but the Kellys merely blunder through in their usual way, while Kitty, in the pursuit of her art, makes burlesque melodramas for which there is no apparent reason except to prove that almost any moving picture could be worse than...
...Hotly debated Manchuria and Shanghai, Labor Party Leader George Lansbury contending that "China must receive reparations for Japan's ghastly blunder'' while British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon warily supported the Japanese thesis that Manchuria spontaneously revolted against China and set itself up as a separate state...
...Whatever the official explanation, whatever the extenuating circumstances, Japan's single-handed intervention in the Shanghai area is a blunder of the first magnitude...
Fumed the able, vigorous Chronicle, Protestant Episcopal monthly: "It is to be hoped that no other diocese will follow the example of Massachusetts. . . . The salaries of all missionaries are small enough but the proposition to reduce them 10% is not only a stupid blunder but a heartless procedure. . . . Things are wrong, grievously wrong-the honor of the Church is at stake...