Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joke about the unavailability of the books at Widener has grown decrepit with age. Familiar enough are the pencilled notations stating that the much desired book is mislaid, or else that all copies are in use, not to be returned for some weeks. The blame for this does not lie entirely with the Library staff, but to a large degree with the rule that most books may be kept out for a whole month...
...worry," optimized Infanta Eulalia. "I know they were only mislaid...
Insult. The spectacle of British actors speaking British-translated lines from a Dutch drama on an American stage is likely to become confusing. So marked are the types in Jan Fabricius' play that one feels the mummers have mislaid the Sam Browne belts, pith helmets and khaki drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly...
...yardstick by which newspapers judge "what is news" is often mislaid when the story of a libel suit occurs. No matter how interesting to the public the facts might be, newspapers rarely mention legal action against themselves or their contemporaries, even if decided favorably to the Press; practically never if the verdict be adverse...