Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contract for San Antonio's greatest memorial, the Alamo Cenotaph, was awarded not to him but to pudgy Sculptor Pompeo Coppini. During the twelve years he called San Antonio his home, big-eared, irascible Sculptor Borglum never finished a Texas job. A hater of cheap politics since the fiasco of his Stone Mountain project in Georgia, Borglum's wrath at Texas boiled over on the subject of the Texas Centennial. Wrote he from Mount Rushmore, S. D., where he is finishing his colossal head of Lincoln: "What is it in Texas that fights and resists any plan...
Harvard has its own police force in the form of an efficient group of Yard Cops, who are thoroughly prepared to handle the student demonstrations that take place in the Spring. Monday night's fiasco was not unruly, no property was damaged, and no heads were cracked, until the promotion-anxious policemen, lacking any insight of student psychology, decided to use the same methods that are used on strike-breaking thugs and lynching mobs...
That the Spanish fleet which holed up in Santiago harbor was no match for the U. S. fleet, is no discredit to the bravery of Lieutenant Hobson, whose attempt to cork the harbor entrance was nevertheless a fiasco. But Reader Dohrman does not know much about his friend's era if he is not aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus...
...John Schwartzmeier some years ago proposed George William Cardinal Mundelein. During the critical stage of Pius XI's late illness, talk in the Vatican was that a substantial party of cardinals favored de-Italianizing the papacy, trying out a U. S. pope in full knowledge that even a fiasco would make little difference in the Church's long history. In disregard of the fact that comparatively young, vigorous cardinals are most papabile, the U. S. candidate was supposed to be New York's frail, 69-year-old Patrick Cardinal Hayes...
...McIsaac and Smith fiasco in Economics A this year is also the result of carelessness. McIsaac and Smith was blithely approved after a cursory examination of its poorly-presented and disjointed contents. This thoughtless, incautious system of selecting texts cannot be pardoned. Men are being cheated out of both their time and their money, and whole courses are being ruined...