Word: missteps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorite pastimes of the Maharajas of Indore, wealthiest state in the Central India Agency, are shikar (hunting) and zenana (harem). In shikar, where elephants assist, the Maharajas have never made a serious misstep; but in zenana. they have made mistakes. Last week Indore's incumbent ruler. His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur* indicated that his interest in zenana was over. He was married...
Mamba's Daughters tells of big, awkward, blundering, childlike Hagar (Ethel Waters) and her passionate, inarticulate love for her daughter, Lissa. Her dream is to make a lady of Lissa. But a misstep on the girl's part threatens her reputation. To keep it intact the frantic mother commits both murder and suicide...
...doled out day by day from his attorney's office, were as purple as the ink they were written in. "Why the hell I keep writing things down in this book I don't know," began the first instalment of what the tabloid Press promptly labeled "The Misstep Diary." "It seems to help for some reason. Then, too, Baby Marylyn some day would like to know what sort of a person her mother was and maybe she will be consoled when she makes mistakes and gets into jams to know that mother was a champion at making mistakes...
...change if the Bank is only "reformed" to the extent of making it a political shuttle-cock. The strike and M. Blum's program have far-reaching effects in other than the national sphere, for France is essential to the delicate balance of European peace. Let there be one misstep--in connection with the Bank of France or elsewhere--then the whole foundation of European polity and security will crumble away...
...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...