Word: carelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seattle who says she had four major operations before December 1925. Given the deathbed rite of Extreme Unction, she saw a vision of mother Cabrini, soon recovered. Next week in Chicago doctors were to examine Peter Smith, 12, of Manhattan. Peter Smith was blinded soon after birth, when a careless nurse washed his eyes with silver nitrate in 50% solution instead of 1%. He also contracted pneumonia. Prayers were addressed to Mother Cabrini. Peter Smith regained his health, his sight and now plans to become a priest...
...first major mishap had come at Roosevelt Dam; a bystander's careless match that burned up his ship. Then he came down at sea, had to be towed for seven days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly...
...Milwaukee City Comptroller, indicted four months ago for malfeasance; by his own hand (pistol), after shooting and critically wounding Chief Deputy Comptroller William Wendt, whose testimony before the grand jury, Kotecki believed, had made it appear that the city had been mulcted of some $500,000 through his careless checking of bond transactions; in Milwaukee. Died. Dr. Raymond Philip Dougherty, 55, professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, curator of Sterling Memorial Museum's Babylonian Collection; by his own hand (hanging); near his home in Hamden, Conn. In April he had suffered a nervous breakdown. Died. Dr. Frederick...
...knew as much about sport as he did about turning out neat comic rhymes for his daily "Facetious Fragments." Yalemen who were in college just before the War remembered Stod King's brilliant undergraduate record, how he impressed people at first as a swart plain-spoken Westerner careless about clothes, how he joined Zeta Psi (next to worst of the five fraternities then in existence*), went on working his way to become managing editor of the News...
...course of the seaplane Santa Maria, captained by Commander Francesco de Pinedo ("Messenger of Italianity," "Conqueror of the Air"), was charted from Sardinia to West Africa, across the South Atlantic to Brazil, around South America and up to New Orleans, thence across the desert to Roosevelt Lake. Ariz. There careless mechanics let gasoline spill out on the water. A numskull gawper flipped a cigaret and Pouf! The seaplane Santa Maria was no more...