Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed novel that has all the elements of a good ghost story except a ghost. To compensate for this deficiency, most of the large cast of characters who figure in Shining Scabbard are a shadowy and illusive folk, bearing so little resemblance to ordinary humans they might easily be mistaken for apparitions, and engaged in actions that seem far better suited to the nether regions than to solid earth...
...possible that both U. S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and Mr. Dawson P. Adams may be mistaken in their divergent opinions concerning the present whereabouts of the remains of the late John Reed...
Around this melancholy setup, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse has written his 45th book, a dead ringer for other Wodehouse fantasies with its collection of imbecilic gentlemen, appallingly mistaken identities, mouth-filling English slang and story that sizzles and fusses as senselessly as water spilled into hot grease. Not a humorist in an ironic or satirical sense of the term, Wodehouse gets away with comic murder by a species of inspired silliness that is funny only because it is so uninhibited and because it goes on so tirelessly. In Laughing Gas, his plot involves a transfer of personality between the child star...
When, therefore, the nations assemble, the recent amicable relationship must be embodied in definite form. The first in this program should be a sincere effort to make a multi-lateral document of the Monroe Doctrine. Certainly our self-as-sumed responsibility as a querelous, often mistaken, and sometimes violently active "governor" of this hemisphere has proved more than we want and probably more than we can cope with today. It is true that a multi-lateral convention will involve a certain measure of limited, mutual responsibility. That, however, is to be expected, and any sign of the United States demanding...
Eddie Carr, the specialty man, is singularly unattractive and vulgar without being funny. The brilliance of his dialogue (on the cleaner side) is shown by the persistence of the fossil about the WPA workers who were mistaken for statues...