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A sound and judiciously graduated preparatory training, in fact, is essential if the singer would avoid disappointment or a fiasco.
In this unfortunate fiasco the regiment lost about two hundred men by desertion, from which depletion it never recovered.
The attempts of the English Government to manufacture an English general in the South African war were a miserable fiasco.
It is in travail and laughable fiasco that the young school their bodies to beautiful expression, as they school their minds.
Urged by the mere idea of such a fiasco, the girls plucked up their courage again, and pursued their caterpillar-like progress.
The example of the steel industry and the fiasco of the President's Industrial Conference crystallized this reviving anti-union sentiment into action.
On his second expedition he was amply provided, and most of his companions were experienced men, but it proved a miserable fiasco.
The committee hesitated, and then one by one came after us, more anxious, I think, to complete the fiasco than to unearth facts.
Daylight revealed the fiasco, and as they were dismounted they took cover and waited for the relief party that did not come.
Repeated the tailor, and his indignant reply died on his lips as he remembered with sudden distinctness the fiasco of the previous night.
This wretched fiasco of a republic cannot endure much longer, and then our father will abdicate in your favor, and you will be king.
After this fiasco the brigade moved out into the cornfield, where it had halted earlier in the day, and bivouacked for the night.
When my opening added a third sensational surprise, one of the London dailies asked, "Is this going to be another Georgia Magnet fiasco?"
The more that is expected of him, the closer must be the expression of his friends, or a grave fiasco may have to be deplored.
The Kaiser soon treated him as he was in the habit of treating any of his servile creatures, high or low, who made a fiasco.
Presently a belated chit arrives to say that the French were to attack at sunrise, but the attack was a fiasco, and is postponed.
The longer and more difficult advance against Valencia itself was relegated to a distant date; there must be no more fiascos like that of February.
For the former purpose it may have achieved some measure of success, but from the point of view of collecting money it was a ludicrous fiasco.
As a gallant attempt to find a solution to a most pressing question it was very praiseworthy, but as a working institution it was a regular fiasco.
Unhappily, jealousy between the American Generals Wilkinson and Hampton resulted in a lack of concert in their military operations, and the expedition became a complete fiasco.
The bombardments might be written down a fiasco, and what after all did it matter whether relief came to-morrow, or not till the day following.
With Angelina's fiasco to talk over, the four found the journey back to town much less tiresome than the "voyage," as Martine called it, to Chelsea.
These limitations, if adhered to, especially with the logical corollary of shock formation, albeit there was nothing to shock, would have rendered the charge a fiasco.
After throwing off the native superstitions of centuries, it would be a dismal fiasco to take on the European superstitions which have been discarded here by all progressive people.
He, who had meant the season to be so famous in the annals of the school, had been the sole cause of the miserable fiasco that it had become.
One need not probe further back in history than to the autumn of 1914 to ascertain the blundering fiasco that was made in that sphere of our alleged activities.
And really, one cannot help agreeing cordially with their lordships, and heartily deploring the loss of so many brave men in a fiasco due to thorough bad management.
He did not offer a single criticism on his fiasco; on the contrary, he himself endeavored to find excuses, mingling with them the comfort of his good advice.
The Old Boys began to grin, and Lawyer Ed began to grow hot at the fear of making a fiasco of what he had intended for a grand finale.
I know the horrible fiasco it will seem to the public, and how your jealous rivals will make capital out of the mythical prima donna who did not materialize.
It took the fiasco of the Boer War, and the strikes and internal disorders of the last few years, to awaken the nation from its stupor of imperial complacency.
At any rate, he could not foresee that, far from bringing him distinction, the task would shortly end, as Sir John Macdonald described it, in an inglorious fiasco.
He hesitated a second, and I feared lest he had lost thread of his thought, feared too lest after his somewhat flamboyant commencement his appearance would be only a fiasco.
The Principal and the mistresses clapped their hardest, and so did the rest of the scanty audience, but everybody felt that the whole affair had been a fiasco.
Thinking over it well, I do not believe the fiasco about the statue of Michael Angelo occurred for want of enthusiasm for art or statuary, or much less for the subject.
After making a fiasco on the piano at the age of five, at a concert given by her mother in her salon, she was relegated to the society of the servants.
He had seen in his younger years one of the biggest failures that history commemorates, an immense national fiasco, and it had implanted in his mind a deep aversion to the ineffectual.
It is needless to say that this masquerade, these vibrating appeals to fraternity that were placarded upon the walls gave us in that gray, abandoned town an impression of complete fiasco.
This attempt was in the end a miserable fiasco, but it occasioned much alarm at the time and was the cause of some distress to the loyal inhabitants of that region.
I had expected that matters would proceed smoothly here in the future, and there would have been no difficulty if discreet judgment had been used when this fiasco shall have subsided.
Humphreys was vexed and ashamed at the fiasco of the afternoon, and could not be satisfied without making another effort that evening to reach the center of the maze.
Such mishaps are sometimes due to the diffidence of youth, sometimes to the demurs of an inexperienced woman, for old players at this game seldom end in a fiasco of this kind.
It had been organized since the fiasco of 1896, and although Uncle Paul had regarded it with suspicion at first, its respectable and sleepy character had allayed even his suspicions.
Presiding over the performance, I was terrified at the fiasco, and found myself suddenly acting like one of those military geniuses who on the field of battle convert disaster into victory.
His cap of darkness might be of service to him here, but since the fiasco of the self-supplying tables he had been distrustful of any article supplied by the Astrologer Royal.
This fiasco was a disappointment and mortification to the President and General Grant, who believed they had furnished a force to which they had a right to look for substantial results.
This was not likely, for Herbert at his worst was an honest ruffian, who had taken the whole blame (indeed it was no more than his share) of that fiasco.
Daisy, on her part, was full of praise for the valor of Big Todd, and delighted to hear of the sort of fiasco that had waited on the military display at the station.
Her husband listened with a smile; to the detached mind a fiasco has always its amusing side, and Norton Ward was by no means particularly concerned about Arthur or his fortunes.
Costa, implacable as he was, had a strong sense of justice, and the great conductor never forgot the signal service his young friend had rendered him by preventing a horrible fiasco.
The courteous confusion of the chairman, the dismay of the committee, the colossal nature of the fiasco filled me, I am glad to say, not with mortification, but with an overpowering desire to laugh.
Rodney's reply makes perfectly apparent the point at issue, his own plan, the ideas running in his head as he made his successive signals, the misconceptions of the juniors, and the consequent fiasco.
In December of the same year, nevertheless, he wrote to Liszt confessing that the fiasco of the work was "a purifying and wholesome punishment" for having published it in spite of his better judgment.
The immediate effect of this fiasco was the termination of his connection with "The Pickwick Papers," the artist being actually engaged in preparing designs for the succeeding number when he received a note informing him that the work had been placed in other hands.
Several years afterward in London she also saved the work from becoming a fiasco, the singular fact being that "Norma," now one of the great standard works of the lyric stage, took a number of years to establish itself firmly in critical and popular estimation.
Kitty felt, but could not say, that she had never really tried to manage it; that as long as things had gone on without any open fiasco, and they had been able to enjoy themselves, and the servants had not been bad-tempered, she had been quite content.