Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggested that Commissioners postpone their summer vacations to the autumn so the rate case could be more quickly disposed of. Shortly retorted Commissioner Meyer, presiding at the hearing: "If anyone thinks the question of vacations enters into the Commission's consideration of this case, he is very much mistaken." Shippers' representatives, on the other hand, insisted that they needed a month or more to prepare their arguments in opposition to rate upping...
Laughing Sinners (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the title given to a cinemas-culated version of Torch Song, the play by Kenyon Nicholson which was the first outstanding success of the past Manhattan season. In Torch Song Author Nicholson played about with a case of mistaken identity between sex and religion. He showed his heroine joining the Salvation Army when deserted by a traveling salesman, later having a reunion with her lover when she tried to convert him. This aspect of the story has been overlooked in the cinema, which tells a plain and not particularly stirring case-history...
...civilized home-wrecker of the talkies, sparkles pleasantly as Mildred. It's a Wise Child (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the minor stage contributions of the late David Belasco (see p. 28) was this obstetrical little farce, fragile and inoffensive, which deals glibly with a complicated case of mistaken pregnancy. As cinema, the obstetrical aspects are made to seem even more innocent by the writhing cuteness of Actress Marion Davies. Part of the comedy depends upon the fact that no one dares utter such a rude phrase as ''have a baby," not even the iceman, who complains...
...prevented the announcement of the Zollverein. Deputy Georges Scapini, always potent in argument because of the sympathy aroused by his War blindness, cried for a greater show of force, a firmer foreign policy. M. Franklin-Bouillon introduced a motion: "Resolved: That for five years M. Briand has constantly been mistaken in his forecasts as well as his facts." Others accused him of "leading France into another...
...shower in a brassiere). Too free play has been given to the famed Swansonian mannerisms, goo goo eyeing and curling her upper lip to show off her teeth. Best shot: the fadeout, with Miss Swanson dreaming blissfully in the arms of a ship's officer whom she has mistaken for her fianc...