Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lunch. In long sheds filled with betting machines men and women stood in line to put their money on the mud-horses-Distraction, Bonivan, Bobashela, Toro. Some liked outsiders-Petee Wrack at 20 to 1, Rumplestiltskin, Sun Beau. Some liked the English colt, Strolling Player. Many thought that Misstep was just as good as Reigh Count and maybe better. Finally when the 22 starters paraded to the barrier, and were sent off, some people yelled, some wept, and some turned pale. "Misstep!" they shouted. "Reigh Count...
...Misstep was leading. The first time the field passed the stand Reigh Count was in the little group that had been forced to the front. At the eighth pole Misstep still led the wafting line of color moving through the grey air opposite the stands. In her box Mrs. John Hertz of Chicago, owner of Reigh Count, stood with the tears running down her face watching the yellow shirt of her jockey, Chick Lang. As the horses moved into the turn Reigh Count swung out wide around Misstep, then pulled away to win. Toro was third and the rest...
...them, no one knows. They stretch for 200 miles northeast and southwest paralleling the Blue Ridge (40 miles southeast). Master chain of the Appalachians, they wall off Tennessee from North Carolina. Near a place called Indian Gap, the snag-toothed divide is so sharp that a mountaineer's misstep would plunge him dizzily into one State or the other...
Such was the epitaph awaiting Lee O'Neil Browne when, last week, stooping to avoid a low branch, he made a misstep on the narrow stone path at the edge of his bluff and plunged 50 feet into the Fox River, whose muddy waters whirled along half a mile (to their junction with the Illinois River) before"yielding the body...
...sounded. Was Otto H. Kahn the cause of offense ? He had made a speech, had tried to sweeten the bitter bills. Was George W. Wickersham the butt of official anonymous reproach? He had made several speeches on the general subject of peace, goodwill. Did Congressman W. R. Green misstep? He had conferred with Finance Minister Caillaux of France, had told newspapermen France could not pay quickly. Or was the offender some unnamed great one who was rumored to have gone to Europe to work out, unofficially, some debt-funding plan? Whoever and whatever it may have been, the Administration, through...