Word: fiascos
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...George was chosen by all the opposition parties to lead the attack upon Conservative Goliath Baldwin's Government. With well pondered malice, the fiery David twirled his verbal sling and loosed a stinging pebble: a resolution to reduce Sir Austen's salary. Quoth slinger George: "The Geneva fiasco has created a bad impression abroad . . . led to a very unpleasant discussion in the U. S. Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung all the mud he could...
...many a harassed statesman the opportunity to blame the whole fiasco upon Brazil came as a sort of diabolic godsend...
National Humiliation Day-a day set aside for fiery speeches on Japan's resentment of the enactment of last year's U. S. Immigration Bill-proved a fiasco, because the Japanese did not feel half so humiliated as they had expected...
...became powerful enough to keep everything on the run, including the playwright. He put up a game fight, however, until the situation got the better of him at the end of the last act; he shuddered, uttered a desperate anticlimax, and succumbed. The audience paid no attention to his fiasco, but was satisfied with the thrills that has gone before; well-schooled by the happy ending-at-all-costs movies, it was already groping for its bat under the seat...
Untaught by the burst of protest against Defense Day, President Coolidge has lent his support to a nearly identical program. Unchastened by the virtual fiasco of last September's celebration, he has endorsed in a letter whose enthusiasm is matched only by its length the proposed celebration of today as Navy Day. But the militaristic basis of the plan he concealed beneath a quite proper emphasis upon the peaceful achievements of the naval forces in exploration, charting, assisting commerce, mapping currents and winds; in sum, making the seas less the dreaded playground of unfamiliar forces...