Word: misstep
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...officers getting airmail contracts (see p. 30). There was a good chance, moreover, that, unlike Standard Oil, aviation stockholders would pay, for with air contracts canceled the value of their stock tobogganned in all markets. Many an observer wondered last week whether the President had not made a political misstep. The President was put in an uncomfortable position when Colonel Lindbergh wired him a protest that commanded the attention of the country. This criticism touched a tender White House spot. Stephen T. Early, the President's second assistant secretary, met it with a double-barreled reply. One barrel went...
...marriage, 1921, was to be the red-letter year of Actress Cornell's theatrical career. As Sydney in A Bill of Divorcement she rationalized, idealized the post-War flapper. Next came two costume parts (in Will Shakespeare and Casanova), two mistakes (The Way Things Happen, The Outsider), a scarlet misstep with David Belasco (Tiger Cats), and then Candida. George Bernard Shaw has never met Katharine Cornell. One look at her photograph, however, and the bearded sage of Adelphi Terrace pronounced her the best Candida who ever played the part...
...wonderful victory in the election." Strikers. Closely associated with the National Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come for direct action. If Roosevelt makes a misstep we'll fight him just as hard as we fought Hoover. We'll come down harder than ever." Meanwhile a farmers' march to Washington for the opening of Congress was also in the making last week. One thousand "delegates" were expected at the Capitol to petition...
...story is lost, but only temporarily. Grandmother Louisa knew her husband deceived her, even on his dying day. She knew that of all her sons and daughters Charles was the incompetent, but Charles was the one she loved best. She knew Kate Barlow, who had made a "misstep" in her youth, and whom she tried to help, was making a martyr of herself to no good end; she could have told Rachel her favorite granddaughter, many a sad, true thing about what was ahead of her. But Louisa always refrained. She said what she thought would help: when she really...
Captain Robertson's experience tied a desperate game with Borsodi at the second table after 60 moves. After an exchange of queens Saron won a game of 49 moves from Captain Tager of Yale. A slight misstep coast Southard an exciting end-game of 61 moves against Ryder. resulting in the only defeat for Harvard...