Word: mishaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression. Almost single-handed he directed the fight which resulted in the removal from the Stock Exchange Control Bill in Washington of most of its rawest and most of its unworkable provisions. And under him the Exchange got through its first year of Federal regulation without serious mishap. His friends believe the burly onetime Harvard oarsman made the best of a bad situation, that he has been unjustly criticized, that he deserves the vindication of another term as president...
...nervous. Theatrical agents and radio scouts insisted on hearing his protege, who had been out on a wild 24-hour rampage in Harlem. Until it was time for him to sing Lomax kept his hell-raising minstrel locked up in a coat room. But the performance went off without mishap. Lead Belly's voice is rich and clear. He plays and sings with his eyes closed, taps single time with one foot, triple with the other. He claims that most of his songs are his own. He sang about when "me and a bunch of cowboys had that famous...
...they sped over the Bay of Bengal for Singapore were Parmentier & Moll. At Allahabad these two had lost valuable minutes when they carelessly took off without one of their passengers, had to return to pick him up. Two other Hollanders, Asjes & Geysendorfer, smashed their undercarriage landing at Allahabad. Their mishap put Turner & Pangborn in fourth place, which soon became third when they passed the Mollisons at Karachi. The Mollisons left there two minutes later, got lost, developed motor trouble, limped back to Karachi...
...addition to the mishap to Yankee's jib, she had been handicapped by a shift of wind that favored Rainbow. Her managing owner, Chandler Hovey, had just finished saying that he thought her showing amounted to a moral victory when he heard the news that Rainbow had been chosen. Said he: "It seems incredible." Aboard Vanderbilt's yacht Vara his guests did a war dance of delight...
...Colonel's one ruling obsession is that all things, good or bad, happen in threes. Once at Latonia three accidents occurred. The Colonel offered 4-to-1 that not another mishap would occur during the meeting. He was right. If he has a bad year, he is sure two more are coming. He feels the same way about good years...