Word: mishap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Series. The automobile swerved across the road, landed on the railroad tracks ahead of the train on which the St. Louis team was returning from Philadelphia. A man in the signal tower saw the wreck, switched the train onto a clear track, then shunted it back without delay or mishap...
...mishap occurred in the fifth inning of the next day's game. First man up for the Athletics, Foxx reached first on a wild throw by substitute Third Baseman Flowers of St. Louis. Miller sacrificed and Paul Derringer, rattled as he had been in the first game, walked Dykes. Williams singled. Grove struck out but Derringer walked Bishop, filling the bases. When the count against Philadelphia's Centrefielder George ("Mule") Haas was three balls and two strikes, Derringer delivered a pitch that crossed the plate close to Haas's knees. Umpire Richard Nallin called it a ball. After a long...
...remember that at the time the Emperor was forced out of the Forbidden City, you carried a knife under your sleeve, ready to commit suicide should any mishap occur to the Emperor or yourself? What a holy and divine spirit was that, and how you have changed now into a different person...
...after Miss England's mishap the Detroit race officials reconsidered their intention of cancelling the third heat. George Wood ran Miss America VIII slowly over three laps of the 30-mile course. But the name of Gar Wood's 13-year-old son, Garfield Arthur Wood Jr., in whose name Miss America VIII was entered, was not engraved on the tall, gold Harmsworth Cup. Whether or not it will be is up to the Yachtsmen's Association of America which will meet to ponder the problem soon. The crew of a tugboat salvaged Miss England...
Mexico, concluded their summer jobs with International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. in Manhattan. They said they had lived on Staten Island within their $100-a-month salaries, entertained themselves modestly with occasional visits to cinemas and trips to Coney Island (funpark) until their last month in town. Then a mishap befell them, upset their finances. "We went to a place with some girls," said Fernando, "and ordered wine. We didn't think that would cost much. But the waiter brought champagne, and after that the girls ordered more. The evening cost us $95. American bandits are worse than the American...