Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Temperamentally, Harry Luce was TIME'S lightning; Brit Hadden its thunder. Young Editor Hadden, black-haired, bushy-browed and so nervous that he never sat still, always scowled at copy, generally from beneath a green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer† as an example to TIME...
...liberal is a determined, intelligent man, and is wholly admirable as a person, but there is no attempt made to hide the inherent weaknesses of his position. It is admitted that if people are allowed to choose their own courses free from dictation, they will blunder as often as proceed wisely. The inertia and occasional impotence of democracy are freely conceded. The communist is allowed to write a novel about the squalor that our economic system allows, as seen in the sharecroppers of the Mississippi delta...
...Somerville second story man committed the gravest blunder of his career the other night when he entered the apartment house in which Skip Stahley, Freshman football coach lives and was knocked cold by a single punch. He was revived some hours later in a Somerville police cell...
...crude blunder in the peace treaties to forbid the union of German Austria with the German Republic. ... It will be safer policy to expect and allow for the expansion of German interests along lines which it is patently destined to follow. ... If there is to be peace, there can be no exemption from contribution and concession-neither for Germans, nor for Czechs, nor for the British Empire either. . . . The gravitational pull of a nation of 70,000,000 [Germany] cannot be denied...
...effort to liberalize the Supreme Court, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last year split the Democratic Party with the bitterest political fight of the century. That the fight was a blunder became apparent last summer when the President lost it. That it was also totally unnecessary became apparent last week when Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland called reporters into his office to show them a letter he had just sent the President. The letter: ". . . Being eligible for retirement under the Sumners Act ... I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective . . . the 18th day of January...