Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knees. Jalna, chosen as the best of 1,100 novels, is by no means her first published work,* though it is the first to bring her wide recognition. Now, in her native city, tea, dinner, luncheon tables buzz with compliments from dullards, staggered at a miracle which they had mistaken for mediocrity...
...training the night before the big race, perhaps they would have felt the same simple gratification as the audience when the unsung hero got the girl and ended the picture. Paid to Love (George O'Brien, Virginia Valli). The picture involves a mythical kingdom and a case of mistaken identity, but does better than might be expected considering these handicaps. One Gaby (Virginia Valli) is hired to teach Crown Prince Michael (George O'Brien) how to love, and does...
...would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers ["Camelots") will not allow me to go to prison. Let the Prosecutor General dare to try to arrest me! He is mistaken if he believes, as he says, that I will have to bear the expenses of his proceedings. I am within my right and I shall not move! I am ready for anything and will do whatever circumstances or my fancy dictate. Tell that to the Prosecutor General. . . . With me" this...
...silver dollar has been the two-dollar bill. Blackamoor dice-wielders roll their eyes and shake their heads at getting the "unlucky" two-spot; superstition everywhere has fastened forebodings upon it. Probably the prejudice against the two-dollar bill results from the ease with which it may be mistaken for and handed out as a one; at any rate, it is the least liked of all currency denominations...
...growing self-consciousness, who suspect that as the earlier struggle against geographical frontiers produced its efflorescence in what one of these students has not ineptly termed "the golden days", so the present struggle against social and industrial and intangible frontiers may have some similar result. To such as these, mistaken as they may be, "The Rise of American Civilization" will be put down as at least a tentative landmark