Word: mix-up
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...last week occurred what might possibly be the next thing to a trip for the Senator when his wife, Mamie McConnell Borah, sailed out of New York aboard the S. S. Mauretania for her first trip to Europe. A mix-up about her passport caused a flurry at the pier until the French Consul General discovered that her husband was none other than the great Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Borah friends in Washington speculated on what influence, if any, Mrs. Borah's excursion might have on the foreign policy of the U. S. Would she return with such...
...neck, on the throw-in by Hoffman. McGinity managed to throw the ball over near third where a fan captured it. Steinfeld grabbed the fan from behind and during the struggle Floyd Kroh . . . rushed from the bench and rescued the ball, returning it to Evers. O'Day watched the mix-up and after seeing Evers with the ball standing on second walked off the diamond?reserving his decision on Merkle's out until he was away from the crowd. . . . This is just another version, but it is the way Toe Tinker remembers it. S. J. DAVIS...
...prize bout of the evening was in the unlimited class, where K. D. Robinson '30 defeated Elmer Meyer 1G. S. There was no stalling, they laced into each other with a flock of hard blows; the mix-up looked like a battle of siege guns. Meyer took the offense, and was far, ahead at the first bell; he started off the second round with a rush, but tired quickly, and was an easy target for Robinson's pounding...
...troops will never be able to put a stop to the harrying of their territory. The Riffi may be driven back to their borders again and again, but never defeated. The humor of the situation, this "Daddy on the Castle" game, is that last autumn Spain had a little mix-up of the same sort and suspected France of supplying arms to the same rebellious natives. Consequently Spain is not tumbling over her self with eagerness to help her neighbor now that the little Mohammedan muckers have turned their bean blowers in the opposite direction...
After a prima donna had carolled the National Anthem, John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York, gave the "Caseys" the freedom of the City in one of his famed welcome-speeches. Said he: "If any of you get in any mix-up with the 'cops' while you are here, just give them the high sign; if that does not work, call me up at City Hall. . . . One of your faith has been permitted to direct this city. . . . The work of this Order is well known. . . . Its championship* of American principles and ideals...