Word: blunderers
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...asserted that a certain substance inhibited the action of insulin in the body. When colleagues complained that they could not repeat his experiments, he admitted that neither could he because assistants on whom he had relied in the first place had made an error. His frankness in admitting his blunder put him back in the graces of fellow scientists...
...cause behind the mysterious blunder at Balaklava, Screenwriters Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh have arbitrarily chosen for their stage the tried & true terrain of Northern India. Here, in 1850, Captain Geoffrey Vickers saves the life of Surat Khan in a leopard hunt the day before the Khan learns that the British Government has discontinued his fat subsidy. Months later, Geoffrey reaps the reward of his good turn. When the Khan's tribesmen have surrounded the military outpost at Chukoti, Geoffrey and the girl (Olivia de Havilland) who loves his brother are the only members of the garrison who survive...
...strenuous, heart-breaking ordeal. Under a constant nervous strain, working long hours, haunted by the fear of blundering, learning that doctors were capable of alibiing themselves by blaming nurses, the girls often went to pieces, lost credit for months of work by hysterical outbursts or reckless dissipation. Belinda made her first blunder as an apprentice...
...That's why I am trying to get you Bilbo folks to join me in saving him from his own blunder. When that time comes poor Bilbo will be confronted with the old nigger preacher's text which he said would be found in the 19th Chapter and 16th verse of Duteronimy ∣sic∣ and reads as follows: 'And Jonah said unto the whale, if you had kept your damned mouth shut, this never would have happened...
Calmly choosing to forget the form letter sent to all Massachusetts judges requiring them to submit a report of their age and the state of their health, Governor Curley has explained himself out of one of the most embarrassing situations that even he has ever managed to blunder into. In a statement that is an insult to the intelligence of any but a Curley-appointed, democratic judge, the buffoon of Beacon Hill staunchly avowed that his intentions behind the proposed ouster of all judges over seventy were inspired by an utterly altruistic desire to relieve poor old men "with failing...