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Other experiments followed at intervals, most of which were fiascos, although some were partially successful.
The great reception arranged outside was a fiasco; the evening banquet was indefinitely postponed.
Why, the very newspapers of the world would pile headline upon headline over such a fiasco.
Of course after this success, following upon the fiasco of yesterday, he is at once fed up.
There must be no mistake or fiasco, nothing but what she considered decent, orderly, virtuous.
The leading papers still announced, as before, that every concert I conducted was a fiasco.
The peculiar circumstances under which the play was written may help to explain the fiasco.
After the Bacchanal fiasco, there was probably a sentence of death hanging over his head anyhow.
What was there about the old system of private capitalism to account for a fiasco so tremendous?
After some preliminary fiascos these became reliable, besides being very speedy, as compared with train schedules.
I should like dear Daisy to have something to console her for that terrible fiasco about her Guru.
"How much can you lose by his opera," the prince replied, "supposing it be a perfect fiasco?"
Everybody blamed everybody else, while an immense sum of money had been spent upon a wretched fiasco.
This whole theater has been a fiasco from the beginning, and the sooner we close the better.
The second attempt had a similar result, and so on, until fiasco after fiasco had been made.
A fiasco had been anticipated, but it proved to be even worse than the wildest nightmare had pictured.
If you don't let her have a rest soon she'll be falling off in public, or having some fiasco.
Your only escape from fiasco being sinking to a lower surface and sacrificing your original conception of true proportion.
This sea of inventions, fashions, furniture, works of art and fiascos, made for him a poem without end.
Wagner made a feeble effort to save the performance from disaster, but the result was practically a fiasco.
Hollister fiasco still fresh in their minds, and to make another mistake was something not to be relished.
This fiasco here was a kind of drunken forlorn hope, started simply by the noise of the explosion.
If a detective ever has made a great fiasco, I did so on that occasion, as you yourself will learn.
It is very difficult to decide who was to blame for this fiasco, for the evidence is exceedingly conflicting.
"I want to know who was responsible for this fiasco, and why it occurred in the first place."
How important these circumstances were comparatively can only be understood by considering the fiascoes of the Directory elsewhere.
There was this confrontation, with the absurd testimonies of the two soldiers: it had proved a ridiculous fiasco.
It was a painful fiasco, so far as I was concerned; I have a dim suspicion that we scored nothing.
And didn't I tell you that marriage number two would probably prove as great a fiasco as marriage number one?
The first was held in August, the second in December, and the third fiasco has just been witnessed.
As the popular saying is, he let the cat out of the bag, and made an absolute, miserable fiasco.
After this fiasco had set all the world laughing, Butler retired voluntarily, and was succeeded by Gen.
And in that assumption, Duran concluded, had been hidden the fallacy which had made a fiasco of the project.
In 1918, after the fiasco of the enemy's Spring offensives, the initiative passed into the hands of the Allies.
Do not let us think for a moment that we can afford such another fiasco as the late Colonial Conference.
On the other hand, there is a noble way of being ugly: a high-aspiring fiasco like the fall of Lucifer.
"How much can you lose by his opera," he said to the manager, "supposing it should be a complete fiasco?"
The attack had ended more or less in fiasco, and as a trial of strength upon either side it was negligible.
The battle was a tragic fiasco for the Regulators, who fought bravely, but without adequate arms or real leadership.
This fiasco determined Philip to adopt a new policy toward the communes and compel them to obey his orders.
Such a daring proposal necessarily raised the whole question of the responsibility for the serious engineering and financial fiasco.
"We made a nice fiasco over Tom," she said to Lena; "I don't know which is the greater idiot, you or I."
His parents said they had brought him many times before, and such a fiasco had never before taken place.
The first year of the war, so far as regards the land campaigns, showed nothing but reverses and fiascoes.
The army operations were a ridiculous fiasco, but nevertheless gave the Mormons ground for the assertions that they were invincible.
Another fiasco would, he was certain, destroy his nerve and render him quite unfit to retain his place in society.
It is possible that the fact that there was no heat in the boiler had something to do with this fiasco.
This sort of semi-tragic fiasco had become so usual that when they occurred he was no longer stirred into making amends.
I don't know why he dropped down on us like a shooting star the way he did, some college fiasco I understand.
His roaring was a miserable fiasco, but most people mistook it for the latest fashion in roaring, and were impressed.
He accordingly commenced operations by blowing vigorously, but could only produce a sort of pear-shaped balloon or little flask (fiasco).
The refusal to rise for the release of Mitchel led to bad blood, and the subsequent rising resulted in a fiasco.
A sympathetic friend ventured to ask if the fiasco was caused, perhaps, by too much blood and thunder in the piece.
This petition was written in order to make the authorities look foolish, as they no doubt felt after the fiasco just enacted.
Her sense of fair play made her try sincerely to make the best of what had all along been an inevitable fiasco.
The expedition of 1687 had not been a fiasco like that of 1685, but neither was it in any real way a success.
For, when I cannot make a coup, and a fiasco, however slight, would be unpleasant, why should I run unnecessary risk?
The person who is always attempting some great project which ends in a fiasco is deserving of the condemnation which he receives.
He thought neither of his family, nor of his sins, nor of the grand fiasco, but solely of this physical action.
This was ingenious, but hardly convincing, one would think; yet Jemima lost little, if any, of her prestige by this fiasco.
The fiasco of Mephistopheles was tremendous and rarely had a storm burst with such fury under the roof of the Scala.
As the setting sun streamed into the long room, Tutti crept in, holding Father Giacomo's hand; carrying the broken fiasco.
When he reads this, he will remember the bitterest night of his life, and the fiasco that ended Sir Galahad's Raid!
Lee refused to accept the responsibility except with the advice and direction of the President, and the conspiracy ended in a fiasco.
Her nose is a fiasco, but when you have been married a week you will not so much as see that she has a nose.
Hans Richter, who conducted the Vienna performance of Romeo, declared that the comparative failure of the work did not amount to a fiasco.
The poor lady was in utter despair, after the fiasco of the night before, and spent the day in her rooms, weeping.
It was evident that a repetition of the fiasco of the other day must on no account be risked; they must not be tried.
He seems to have been singularly destitute of the financial genius of his race, and the business career proved from the outset a fiasco.
He was already trying to think out some form of apology for his share in what he felt had developed into a ridiculous fiasco.
The great social engagement on which he had counted so much had utterly missed fire, and he blamed himself for the fiasco.
This attempt proved a fiasco, and Williams was caught by the Arabs, cruelly tortured, and finally killed by a lance thrust.
Six months later the congressional committee on the conduct of the war made a more searching and exhaustive inquiry into the "mine fiasco."
She might marry, of course, probably would, being sobered by this fiasco, but after such a failure, nothing "brilliant" might be expected.
She had, since the social service fiasco, acknowledged to herself that she had grown in that short space very fond of Tom.
It must be understood that my second attempt to photograph the flight of the soul had proved as great a fiasco as the first.
His "army," as it was called, ended in a fiasco, but it directed the attention of the country to a grave condition of affairs.
If you care too much about what you have to say, if your heart beats too warmly for it, you can be sure of a complete fiasco.
Everything depended upon the establishment of some instant connection between them, for otherwise the nerve of both might fail, and a fiasco result.
Last year's maneuvers were, we believe, something of a fiasco, but to ensure the success of the surprise mobilization, five months' previous notice is given.
The General gazed at the Agent with cold contempt and never opened his mouth in answer to expressions of regret at the fiasco.
They left behind them on the edge of the crowd, seated side by side on a pile of ties, two miserable partners in the fiasco.
And, as Joe had said, the man had not been seen publicly since the fiasco of his attempt to expose Joe's mystery box trick.
After this fiasco he suggested sending to the keeper's cottage, where luncheon was to be served, to tell them to set the tables outside.
They are not dear, bearing in mind their utility, and one will, I am sure, save the student much time and many a fiasco.
Major Fiasco, on the other hand, considered himself to be a deeply injured individual, and he spent his life in brooding over his wrongs.
His work, all that he had been through, was wasted effort; the whole an expensive fiasco proving that the majority are sometimes right.
After the Washington fiasco, bursting completely the party for which he had labored so faithfully, this threat came back to him more often.
The revision as presented must be "dismissed as a dismal fiasco," but only dismissed "in order to be dealt with anew in some more adequate fashion."
There is no means of knowing what this recommendation will lead to; let us hope not to the fiasco of the last badly conceived experiment.
The lives of many picked officers and men would have been lost, and the whole affair would have gone down to history as a fiasco.
He had to confess to himself that this, his latest half-playful, half-serious attempt to bring the two together, had resulted in a complete fiasco.
Scott Mason rode the crest of the Cold Fusion story for months before it became old news and the Hubble Telescope fiasco took its place.
There was present an officer from the Province of Texas who was able to give us many correct details as to the fiasco of Colonel Burr.
Beyond this there was nothing in the manner of their leaving to suggest a fiasco, or that they were not going together to visit friends.
The only alternative was to violate the compact (which the present fiasco had surely weakened), speak out, and try and make an ally of her.
Considered as a diversion the early advance upon the Suez was a success: as a serious military operation, resting on its own legs, it was a fiasco.
I cannot remember whether he distinguished himself on this occasion, but I know that nothing particularly dreadful happened, and that he made no evident fiasco.
While these two generals mapped out details for their joint offensive, a third Federal force met defeat in one of the fiascos of the war.
The President of Mexico compelled him to leave their territory, and President Cabrera rushed troops to the border, so that the movement was a fiasco.