Word: mishap
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...evenly manned boats. Coach Brown did not say, but it is thought that Norton and Perkins will stroke the two crews during most of the week and that Watts will replace one of them when the squad is again given a definite ranking it is probable also that, barring mishap, Captain Platt's place in the first eight is assured throughout the rest of the season He is getting into shape rapidly and seems none the worse for his illness...
...Pabst 2L, and Crocker Snow 1L. Over 75 passengers have been carried, the plane has been in the air over 30 hours, and approximately eight hours of instruction has been given to specially qualified members of the club. A rigid daily inspection system has prevented all accidents, the only mishap of any sort so far being a flat tire...
Died. Mrs. Lucy Ann Osborne Thompson, who lived for 47 years after being scalped in a factory mishap; at Bridgeport, Conn. Special instruments were sent from France for the skin grafting operation, which was probably the first of its kind...
Ghosts. Ibsen's tragedy employing a pathological mishap as symbol of the hideous immorality that easily hides beneath "respectability," is familiar to Broadway. Last year it was done, and the year before and. . . . The plot is taken up with the attempt to build an orphan asylum in honor of Chamberlain Alving, deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role...
...bore any of the burden. Nan Marriot Watson has disappointed in a variety of roles. Even the ladies' delight, Allen Mowbray, has failed them, for his part in the present play is not only small but his performance is unimpressive. It might be ventured that it is a grave mishap to include the dashing Mr. Mowbray in a cast when he doesn't hold front and center. His lines will be fortunate if they receive anything like their due, and the cast will be equally lucky if it gets its cues...