Word: blundered
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...third feature of the show is a flight of steps. The figure is literal and refers in no way to the dancers. Down in the clanking depths of some mechanical mind these steps were born. They pyramid, they stretch, they disappear, revolve and blunder grandly forth again in pyramids. The chorus drilled across them ceaselessly, results achieved were strikingly effective...
Thinking people will discern immediately that Dempsey has taken a false step. In fact, his ingenuous enthusiasm for this vialled virility seems for the moment to have swept him off his feet. Not only has the fighter become involved in this strategic blunder, but his manager as well. Jack Kearns, whose brain held up Shelby and the nation for $100,000, has forgotten himself so far as to give away the secret of his success. He, too, admits that Nuxated Iron is vital to his champion's " phenomenal victories...
...guarantee money lent to the other Allies, and he repudiated Lord Balfour's contention (note to the Allied Powers on War Debts, Aug. 1, 1922) that the United States Government had so insisted " in substance, if not in form." Not content with having made a useless diplomatic blunder, Mr. Harvey was willing to prove it; for he implied that the British Government would withdraw the "unfortunate allusions" made by Lord Balfour six months...
...birth certificates had always been stamped with the footprints of the newly-born-babe--its finger-prints being too minute--Buttercup's famous blunder would be impossible, and that favorite plot-device would be gratefully banished. If everyone securing marriage licenses were to be "printed", divorce charges could be proved with greater certainly, and the possibility of a woman's acquiring an escaped convict for a husband would be slightly lessened...
...Payne-Aldrich bill which passed in 1909, and which was so generally attacked and which contributed so much to the defeat of the Republicans in 1912 a Tariff bill unsound economically and many provisions of which are indefensible. Its passage seems to me to be a stupid political blunder...