Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nineties and the 'oughts and the 'teens. But it has been proved often enough that a small group of graduates may cripple any program of an institution by unintelligent opposition. Princeton and Harvard must continue to appear slightly absurd as long as some of their adherents persist in the mistaken zeal of self-righteousness...
...attend a board meeting in Manhattan. In the Northampton station he sat?and sat. No train came. Director Coolidge eyed his watch, sat some more, in silence. After a half-hour, a station employé asked him what he was waiting for. Together they discovered that Director Coolidge had mistaken standard for daylight saving time. ... In Manhattan, Director Coolidge did not attend a performance of The Little Show, new revue. But a portly gentlewoman with a large handbag did attend, in an aisle seat. There is a joke in The Little Show about Calvin Coolidge at the insurance company meeting...
Your historical ads make as good reading as your indispensable magazine. Recently I enjoyed the one entitled "The Merkle Incident." It was astonishingly complete and very well written, but surely it was mistaken in one important particular. You say, " 'Iron Man' McGinnity, coming on the run, seized the ball and hurled it into the stands. Tinker pinned his arms and the ball lobbed into the crowd already surging on the field...
...will break you politically and socially," threatened one of Spinster Mason's letters, "because you betrayed me 20 years ago." Under cross-examination she admitted writing the letters, but said they were meant for another Mr. Snowden. "It's just one of those cases of mistaken identity. I'm awfully sorry...
...think it invalidated the oath. "When I was sworn in as President by Chief Justice Fuller, he made a similar slip," Mr. Taft recalled, "but in those days when there was no radio, it was observed only in the Senate chamber where I took the oath. . . . You are mistaken in your report of what I did say. What I said was 'preserve, maintain and protect. . . . You may attribute the variation to the defect of an old man's memory...