Word: mishap
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...Lady: "Yes, indeed, that would be a mishap. But trains are graceful in spite of their inconvenience...
...Taft who led the Senate Republicans around the pitfalls of-last week's labor legislation, brought the G.O.P. out on the other side without mishap and even with honor...
...experience may be only the first of many encounters that this product of Puritan stock will have with the earthy give and take of modern diplomatic intercourse. Insiders say that at Moscow he seemed to be learning the footwork and may be able to go through succeeding rounds without mishap. It is likely he will be given further chance. Thus the Conant star has risen to levels where it can reflect over locales as widely separated as San Francisco and Washington. Los Alamos and Moscow. As far as the public is concerned, he seems to have been touched with destiny...
...There, in 1920, Perc broke into the movies by rescuing Film Star Adolph Menjou from the effects of a hasty razor stroke. Menjou had inadvertently shaved off half his mustache just before he was to appear in The Three Musketeers. Young Perc, a beauty-shop apprentice, fixed up the mishap so expertly that he and his father were hired on the spot...
...before been repainted. It was a ticklish job. The busy, perpetually thronged space beneath it could not be shut off-and a mere half pint of paint dropped no feet might permanently discolor a man buying a railroad ticket or kissing his wife goodbye. The redecoration was finished, without mishap, by 30 workmen standing on the largest suspended scaffold ever built...