Word: mishap
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...there is any mortal whose lot no mortal need envy, it is that of Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The honored president of Columbia University can seldom stir from its portals without arousing a storm of reviling quite incommensurate with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...
...mishap did not occur until after M. S. Huberman '25 had been declared winner, while L. P. Beverage '25 and R. L. Kilgour '25 received honorable mention. Professor R. L. Hawkins, Professor L. J. A. Mercier, and Mr. E. L. Raiche acted as judges of the speeches...
...odious crime perpetrated upon the faithful Sirdar of my Army has profoundly affected me as well as all the members of my Government. I deeply regret that such a mishap should have befallen a high official of my Army, a man celebrated for his chivalrous character, high courage and great qualities, who has rendered such signal services to the Army...
...character cannot go by unnoticed the wit and cheer they spread in most trying circumstances. They had to drive their Ford coupe to Cambridge that night and, to be frank with you, Mr. Editor, I have been worried and concerned to know whether they reached home safely without mishap, and did not take pneumonia. I also hope no trouble came to them over their bottle. John A. C. Stevenson, Yale...
...Sophomore at the Yale Sheffield Scientific School, and a candidate for the crew manager-ship, was taken out to Belle Dock in the middle of the harbor early Tuesday afternoon by the crew launch to check the shells as they rounded the outer mark, and to see that no mishap occurred. After supper that evening some thoughtful person remembered that he had not been brought back. A search was started immediately, and at about 9 o'clock the faithful but gloomy candidate was found still sitting at his post...