Word: mishap
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President Hoover took his place at the head of the U-table. Microphones were removed from the table while photographers took pictures. Before radio men could replace the microphones, President Hoover rose, began hurriedly reading his speech held in his left hand. This mishap prevented a broadcast of his words. Suddenly the East Room air began to rumble with sound as distracted radio announcers substituted for the President, read his speech to their audiences. President Hoover's low voice was swallowed up in the vocal confusion...
...stroke and the eight men were working well together. There was a slight delay in getting the boat into the water due to the fact that the float, which started leaking in the afternoon sank to the bottom of the river before it could be saved. This mishap made it necessary for the crew to launch the boat from the bank and most of the oarsmen were thoroughly drenched in the process...
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...