Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that no sales tax stamps were attached to the first letter was merely an underling's oversight, according to the defense...
While newsreel cameras chirred, 48 other prizes, mostly collars and harnesses, were awarded to owners of largest, smallest, shortest-haired, longest-haired, oddest dogs. There was only one disappointment: by an oversight the judges failed to honor, as advertised, the mutt with the most fleas...
...that occasion, having importuned the bookseller to procure a salacious book which he did not carry in stock, the agent of the Society thereupon hailed him into court. The presiding judge remarked on the unique methods of purification employed, but by some oversight no charge of subornation was pressed. The Society which had girded up its I an for a highly moral purpose, found itself penalized by a sharp fall in public esteem. The sudden withdrawal of financial aid on the part of fashionable members in the society caused it to retire into a chastened hibernation for the better part...
...public office, Lawyer Poincaré could not return to practice at the bar. Doctors' fees and hospital bills sapped the small capital he had managed to save. For the past two years he has written magazine articles when not too sick to write. Last summer, by a ghastly oversight the Chamber of Deputies, which had intended to vote a pension to M. Poincaré, adjourned without passing the bill...
...call attention to an apparent oversight in the article on the Prix de Rome in your May 23 issue...