Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take the fatal step a storm struck, and instinctively he tried to save the boat. By the time he had succeeded he was too exhausted to kill himself that day. Furthermore, he stumbled on Smith II's successfully suicided corpse, and in the ensuing comedy of errors was mistaken for Smith II. Finding that he had inherited riches, ease and the dead man's unwanted but comforting mistress, he decided that one suicide in the Smith family was enough for the moment...
...with Cambridge authorities in soliciting contributions from the faculty for the purpose of alleviating the condition of the unemployed. In short, it does not conform to Mr. Robart's idea of a university committee, and faculty members of Harvard would do well to further destroy Mr. Robart's rather mistaken conception by contributing to the neighborhood relief fund...
...course, it is possible that the whole altitude of the colleges in this matter has been a mistaken one; it is a conceivable chance that an increase in pay might give the employers in this case a greater range of material from which to choose. Considering the potential top wage, however, it is improbable that this would be the event. In general, the chance is that the goodies, now provided with suitable subject of conversation, will spend more of their time in interminable objection than in doing the work of their departed colleagues. And if the innovation accomplishes nothing more...
Forty-nine East 65th Street, Manhattan, is not a speakeasy. It is the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet last week an ignorant observer might easily have mistaken its identity as he watched people flock in to see the next President of the U. S. and then flock out again...
...extremely frugal folk and that she has managed successively a textile factory and two big collective farms in different parts of the Union during the past few years, Farmer Campbell's chatter would recall Moscow rumors that the President keeps a vivacious mistress who might easily be mistaken by Mr. & Mrs. Campbell for his wife. In Russia, however, the President does not matter. Josef Stalin matters. Last week another part of Farmer Campbell's book-the part in which he describes his meeting with the Dictator-was savagely attacked in a letter to the Moscow Bolshevik signed...