Word: fiascos
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...tryout were new Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas, new Governor Ray Baldwin of Connecticut, new Senator Robert Taft of Ohio. Of these, Governor Baldwin did the best job of speechmaking but Senator Taft got the biggest headlines: in slightly better oratorical form than the night of his Gridiron Dinner fiasco (TIME, April 24), he took the bold political risk of accusing the President of the U. S. of using foreign policy as a curtain for his domestic difficulties. Excerpt...
...last week it looked as though Publisher Patterson's curiosity was about to wind up in either: 1) the biggest fiasco of his career; or 2) the scientific scoop of the decade. Because topflight geneticists would not work with a tabloid newspaper, the News arranged with the commercial Applied Research Laboratories of Dayton, N. J., headed by Biologist Thomas Durfee, to do its experimenting. Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments...
...passing judgment, two salient facts must be kept in mind. First is the fact that most vote-seeking pension advocates fully realize the hare-brained qualities, the financial impossibilities of their schemes. They have seen the Colorado fiasco. They have heard the grave warnings of most reputable economists. Still they wave the pension banners, keeping strangely silent on the question of paying the bill...
...snipers still forlornly shooting from housetops, a profound wave of disillusionment in the Irish revolutionary movement. Last week, a young Irishman named Louis Lynch D'Alton dramatized the change in revolutionary hearts in a bitter first novel that showed how two Irishmen reacted to the Easter Week fiasco. To Revolutionist Andrew Kilfoyle, who fought in it, the Rising was sickening, "a revolt of poets and schoolmasters," inept, ill-planned, melodramatic, futile. It convinced him that next time there should be no sentimentality, no proclamations, no self-deception and no pity. But to Manus Considine, who had intended...
...small Sealyham, Deacon, have become familiar visitors to art dealers, art galleries, museums and artists throughout the U. S. In preparing the Paris show, the Museum's scholarly, sensitive Director Alfred H. Barr Jr. merely advised; Mr. Goodyear did the picking. After last autumn's fiasco, he did a businesslike job. The 80 living artists represented include most of the well-known names in U. S. art. But they also include a discreet number of young or obscure artists whose merit is known...