Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dans la rue misunderstanding, which resulted in French troops opening fire upon Paris civilians, brings to my mind a curiously parallel story which was widely circulated after the coup d'état of Napoleon III. According to some historians the massacre of the boulevards resulted from a mistaken command. The official responsible for the fatal order (perhaps Napoleon himself-I forget the exact details) is said to have been suffering from a severe cold, and to have exclaimed "Ma sacré toux!"-"My wretched cough"-which was misinterpreted by a zealous officer as "Massacrez tous," or "Kill everybody...
...there ever was such a person, knew how to handle her own affairs and Solomon's; she would have founded her city on a rock and not on a desert. If any one claims that the character of the land has changed since the tenth century, B.C., they are mistaken. There is very little precipitation in Arabia, and the only things which tend to change the topography are sand storms, but these are few in number. Relics found in deep gulleys, where water would have flowed if there was much rain, are perfectly preserved; some tomb stones and monuments have...
Professor Allen has made an extensive study of all the stories which have been told about sea-monsters, and he has come to some definite conclusions. He points out that there are many objects and animals which may be mistaken for sea-serpents, such as rocky reefs, flocks of gulls, whales, oarfish, or sail-fish. The famed "Loch Ness" seen in Scottish waters was probably a gray seal, warped out of shape by a few bottles of old Scotch brew...
...which was released this week. As one of the men closest to the President, whatever Mr. Wallace has to say carries particular weight, and in this statement he has a great deal to say. It is couched in broad and general terms, and it is, unless I am greatly mistaken, the clearest adumbration of what Mr. Roosevelt's future policy, foreign as well as domestic, is going to be, that has yet appeared...
While Mr. Wallace may be mistaken as to the philosophic cause of the movement which he deplores, he is correct in assuming that this country must follow the lead of the rest of the world and join in it; and the programme of Mr. Roosevelt is, I think, the best means of accomplishing the inevitable and unavoidable, for it at least holds out some hope of achieving the economic nationalism which Mr. Keynes believes will be eventually beneficial; best of all there is some hope that under Roosevelt we may for the present, anyway, steer clear of the emotional concomitants...