Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Black. For the first time in several years of flying, Baltimore's Publisher Van Lear Black last week had a "mishap." While flying over the French-Italian boundary, near Monte Carlo, on the return from his Croydon-Cape Town round trip, one of his three motors broke into pieces. His pilot made a safe landing...
...that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself, two minutes running. At 14 she could curse for four minutes. Her father shipped...
...Augustus." Col. Lindbergh said: "It was a mishap, not an accident." Miss Morrow, perhaps without realizing it, gave out a long-sought-after titbit of news when she said: "Augustus will speak...
...Liev Eriksson, from Norway to Newfoundland, with a party including William Washburn Nutting was lost off Iceland in 1924. Alain J. Gerbault, famed French tennis player, bound around the world, is two months overdue in the South Sea Islands, believed lost. Last week cables reported a minor mishap when the yacht of H. Gordon Selfridge, leading London merchant, grounded on the Dalmatian coast...
...London, Conn., into the grey depths of Long Island Sound, went another sistership, the S-19. Navy discipline required the 519 to make a practice run, similar to the S-4's schedule. The S-19's crew took their posts, made the run and no mishap occurred...