Word: mislaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oversight. In Harlingen, Tex., E. N. Foster apologized for mistakenly reporting that thieves had carried off his 800-lb. boiler: he later found it mislaid in a closet...
...appointment. The average sale: $5,000. Winston also turns out engagement rings which Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. sells for as little as $37.50, and makes jewels for some 750 U.S. retail stores. Winston keeps track of every gem in his store at all times. If a single stone is mislaid, no one leaves at night until it is found. Winston himself has never been robbed. But he still follows his insurance brokers' advice and refuses to let newspapers and magazines snap his picture...
Cavendish Welles Cannon is one of the State Department's ablest, most diligent desk diplomats. A U.S. newsman once remarked that Cannon had the worried manner of a village postmaster who had mislaid the day's mail. Cannon kept insisting, in his almost inaudible voice, that the conference should be conducted on "technical" rather than political lines. The Communist majority rode roughshod over the contention...
Occupational Hazard. In Connersville, Ind., Postal Clerk Ben McKinney mislaid his glasses, ultimately got them back postmarked Fort Worth...
...Live in Peace (Lux-Pao; Times Film). The little village seemed to have been mislaid among the hills by careless History until the war of 1944 A.D. To Live in Peace records, in a high-keyed eclogue, one villager's confrontation of History...