Word: blundered
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...while both the London and New York rubber exchanges were in session. Thus he avoided a repetition of the scandal caused when he made his previous rubber announcement, last month, at an hour when the London exchange was closed but the Manhattan exchange was open. The result of the blunder was, of course, to enable U. S. brokers to make a heavy killing before the London exchange re-opened next...
...pictures is to tilt the camera at various odd angles and glimpse life from strange points of vantage. Similar in idea, it would seem are the studies by William E. Barton of Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Barton, who wrote "The Women Lincoln Loved," "The Great Good Man," and "A Beautiful Blunder" to supplement his "Life of Abraham Lincoln," has with diminished success attempted to correlate the lives of the Emancipator and Walt Whitman...
...Gross Blunder...
TIME COMMITTED A GROSS AND UNPARDONABLE BLUNDER IN LINKING WEST VIRGINIA WITH MELLONIZED PENNSYLVANIA IN ITS ARTICLE ON THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSIONS RECENT RATE DECISION STOP WEST VIRGINIA IS GREATLY AGGRIEVED BY THE COMMISSIONS ARBITRARY UNPRECEDENTED RULING STOP LET TIME SEEK SENATOR NEELEY OR THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD FOR EDIFICATION...
...intrigue and outcry. The Duchess of Chartres had helped him fit his ships, and he was a welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised...