Word: gaffes
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...Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When a general informed the Queen of an African victory but ventured to suggest further military reforms, Ponsonby reworded the Queen's furious reply into compliments on the victory (and a paragraph covering the unhappy gaff...
There is no other system quite as demanding as this in all the world of journalism-and subscribers often ask us how we find girls who can stand the gaff and shoulder the responsibility, and what kind of girls they are. So this week I thought I would introduce you to Content Peckham, one of the best researchers we've ever...
Though "time and change shall naught avail to break the friendships formed at Yale," friendships formed at Princeton apparently do not stand the gaff so well...
Chief trappers are experts and bureaucrats, says Thurber, and gives some examples. Once he tried his hand at sailing and a Bermuda lady-expert promptly asked: "Do you reef in your gaff-topsails when you are close-hauled or do you let go the mizzentop-bowlines and crossjack-braces?" Author Thurber did not know, partly because he just sailed for the hell of it, partly because the lady was so nautical that what she really said was: "Do you reef in your gassles when you are cold or do you let go the mittens and crabapples...
...America into the war at one stroke dissolved three Harvard organizations: The League for A Declared War, The Student Defense League, and the Committee Against Military Intervention. Two of these were pressure groups whose work was done; the third was a pressure group which couldn't stand the gaff. But actually they were only paper organizations to whom placing verbiage in the Crimson was the end-all of existence. And they deserved to fall...