Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correspond with his name, and last week many still marked E. R. for the Seventh Edward were ordered left as they are for the Eighth. George V, when the Royal Mint was preparing to strike his coins, commanded: "Make a big V. I should not like to be mistaken for another George"-the reprehensible characteristics of the first "Four Georges" having been popularly dwelt upon by William Makepeace Thackeray...
...father of several illegitimate children. When he went to see the family lawyer- both he and Leon lived on their dwindling capital-he always kept his hat on in the waiting room, even when it was uncomfortably hot, "for fear that if he removed it, the gesture might be mistaken for politeness." He could never be trusted to post a letter because he would remove the stamp. He raided the pantry in the middle of the night and turned on more heat when nobody was looking. At 64 he was still a virgin...
...playwright whose play is reviewed in TIME has an opportunity seldom afforded him elsewhere: he is able to come back fast and plenty if the review contains mistaken facts. In your review of Paradise Lost (TIME, Dec. 23) the following corrections are to be noted...
...able young editorial writer of the New York Herald Tribune, published Road to War, a book which went far to provide the country with a new interpretation of its history. The U. S., according to Mr. Millis, had been sucked into war; Woodrow Wilson had been a victim of mistaken policies and a puppet of circumstance; the toils of propaganda, insidious stirrings of befuddled popular sympathy, the operation of businessmen and financiers, had dragged the U. S. into a foreign mess that took the lives of 126,000 citizen-soldiers. There were well-known facts: In the autumn...
...undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs the impossible under France's laws by marrying her during an evening of drunkenness. Under the mistaken impression that his music is better than his wife's voice, Fonda receives a shock when he is ignored at a large party celebrating Soprano Pons's triumphant début. Taking the usual course for men in his plight, he makes a scene voicing his self-pity...