Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lack of free consent; 2) Failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; 3) Impotence of either party; 4) Mental deficiency of either party sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice; 5) Insanity of either party; 6) Consanguinity (whole or half blood); 7) Misrepresented or mistaken identity; 8) Venereal disease; 9) Bigamy...
...noteworthy trait was his ability as an interviewer. From the hardest-boiled bosses he wrung the most astounding admissions. Modestly he explains his success by attributing it to a realization of his own sinfulness. Once he had stepped out of the reformer's attitude; "I was never again mistaken for an honest man by a crook. . . . The politicians . . . and the consciously corrupting business leaders have ever since acted with me upon the understanding that I was one of them. It facilitated my work; it explains much of my success in getting at the facts of a situation...
...William W. Mounts invites you to take the controls, not, however, letting go of the dual set himself. The plane puts its nose down, then puts it up, then turns on its side, going 130 miles an hour. That is supposed to be a great treat. It's a mistaken supposition...
...looks today at our great democracy, controlled by the American Legion, straining every nerve to establish a competent mechanism to insure world peace (except in cases of national honor and naval parity), then certainly no one can question the value of those sacrificed lives. Can the names of those mistaken men who fought for a foreign monarch and German Kultur be connected in any way with those who died for "the great cause?" It is hoped the CRIMSON will change its standpoint and try and see this affair in the same light as the University authorities. Robert F. Evans...
...Frenchmen (Warner). Two years ago most producers, feeling that the novelty of sound in pictures could best be capitalized in songs and dances, filmed a succession of musical comedies. When these were overworked, reaction inspired the theory that no musical comedies could be successful in the cinema. Applying this mistaken generality to Fifty Million Frenchmen, Warner Bros, neglected to include in it Cole Porter's score which made it a Broadway...