Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promise. "The so-called party leaders of the two great parties may believe they can smother this issue in this campaign. But they were never more mistaken in their lives. If I can get the radio about the middle of October, I shall report progress on this issue...
...Lane in Only Yesterday and Ray Schmidt in Back Street. Her marathon of discontent starts when she is 20 and shows no sign of stopping when the picture ends with her release from jail, at 42. The man she loves, John Shadwell (John Boles) marries someone else, under the mistaken impression that Vergie has jilted him. Vergie gives birth to an illegitimate daughter named Joan. John and his rancid wife Laura (Helen Vinson) adopt Joan. Gossip about Vergie's protracted affair with John causes the ladies of Parkville to boycott Vergie's millinery store. Her landlord...
...that there are ideas in my books and advised not to read them, and so a fatal suspicion has wrapped about the later ones. ... It is no good my saying that they are quite as easy to read as the earlier ones and much more timely." Authors are often mistaken about their own work; Author Wells may well be about his. For even readers who have written him off as an aging utopiantiquary will have to modify their judgment, count these well-varnished tales to his credit...
...whether or not I ever met and unwittingly insulted that elephant years ago. My memory, of course, cannot compare with his. No. I have never served in India, but I have served in Cairo. Was that elephant ever in Egypt? Or was it perhaps just a case of mistaken identity? To an elephant, you know, all Frenchmen must look alike...
Author of these charges was the city schools' Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Emil Altman. He blamed political pressure, negligence, mistaken kindness and a Retirement Board which, rather than pay disability pensions, kept unbalanced teachers in service. Teachers who could not hold jobs elsewhere went to New York. Said Dr. Altman: "We have drained the country of crackpots...