Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout, simple wife, who might easily be mistaken for his mother. Some villagers will tell you that the hair of Alois Lang owes its luxuriant curliness to a permanent wave...
...TIME was mistaken, but not intentionally or to conciliate subscribers in States which have repudiated their obligations, as able Case Editor Orrin G. Judd of the Harvard Law Review ingeniously suggests...
...Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. Anna Sahl found William Burkowski-hacking at her front porch with an axe. Rebuked, William Burkowski admitted that he was a housewrecker, that he had mistaken her house for that of a client...
...Stony Point, N. Y., State Trooper Arthur Kley gave chase to Evelyn McMillan who, when arrested for speeding, asserted that she had mistaken his uniform for the regalia of a cowboy, had feared an assault...
...scene would be if a recognized clowner were playing it. But there are other reasons why The Man from Blankley's is unusual comedy. Its plot concerns an inebriated lord who, due to his condition and the heavy fog, arrives at the wrong house for dinner and is mistaken for a hired guest whom the hostess has ordered from an agency. The dialog is witty, and Barrymore, hiccupping slightly, plays through one lunatic scene after another with a charmingly satirical manner. He used to play in things like this long ago, at the beginning of a career which...