Word: blunders
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...nation-wide crime wave, lashed into destructive fury by the power of gangland born of a monstrous legal blunder, has created such a demand for severity in law enforcement that there has grown with that demand a laxity in observance by law officers of those rights which it is fatal to ignore, even though that ignoring results in the entrapment of the guilty." Lawyer Lilleston of Kansas was the comic relief. He called himself "the forgotten...
Sixteen Augusts ago a California blunder cost Charles Evans Hughes the Presidency. On the eve of a hot Republican primary he carried his campaign into the State where Governor Hiram Johnson was seeking a Senate nomination. Though for hours they were under the same hotel roof at Long Beach, Nominee Hughes and the Governor did not meet. Johnsonites were infuriated at what they called Nominee Hughes's deliberate snub to their candidate. In November Governor Johnson was duly elected to the Senate?but California went Democratic with just enough electoral votes to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House another...
...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...