Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other feature, "The Richest Girl in the World," contains Miriam Hopkins for whom we have always kept a sneaking admiration. This time she finds herself in another pleasant but ineffectual story where mistaken identity brings her suitably to the brink--but just to the brink--of emotional disaster. Nevertheless, that subtle leer in Miss Hopkins voice is still a better bid for seduction than the weapons of most of her contemporaries...
From time to time Anything Goes pauses in its narrative maze of mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings to turn lyrically topical. For example, Miss Merman sings this chorus of the theme song...
Defense tactics were to deny none of the overt acts charged, to let Septuagenarian Insull take full responsibility. BUT the defense was also out to show that the acts were honest, if mistaken; to build up a mass of extenuating circumstances to take the curse off any purely technical violations of the law; to pave Mr. Insull's path to acquittal over a golden road of good intentions. He was to be pictured not as a ruthless robber baron showering the nation with gold-bricks, but as an ambitious man who had overexpanded a huge concern, used bad financial judgment...
Titles of future discussion topics are as follows: "What Knowledge Will Help is Prepare for Marriage," "The Economic Life of Marriage," "Some Successful Modern Marriages," "Mistaken Ideas of Marriage in Modern Literature...
...TIME reports the new urinalysis machine as a benefit to humanity . . . TIME is mistaken...