Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...15th Century cocky composers sometimes showed off by writing compositions that could be played backwards as well as forwards. These compositions, called cancrizans or "crab style" (because of a mistaken idea that crabs walk backwards) were as difficult to construct as crossword puzzles. But they were not worth listening...
Suffice it to say of the story that it is an intricate tale of mistaken identity and of the romantic passion of two naive young buds for the name Earnest. It ends happily in a triple clinch, which is no great surprise for anybody...
...Adolf Hitler seized Czecho-Slovakia because he thought the country's riches would pull him out of an economic hole, he is very likely to find himself as mistaken as when he took Austria and the Sudetenland. They have both proved to be liabilities...
...does more to clear his later reputation than others have managed to do for him. It is true that Louis XVI's ministers wore a trench to his door. "This Morning," runs a typical entry, "employ myself in preparing a Form of Government for this Country." He was mistaken in his methods, blinded by vanity and ignorance of the French common people. But Morris' Monarchist sympathies were far from enthusiastic...
Early this week General Miaja announced for the third time in six days that the revolt against him had been crushed. For the third time, however, the old "Savior of Madrid," whose military acumen was never rated very high, seemed likely to be mistaken. The "rebel" forces had been cleared out of the centre of Madrid, but they were still said to be holding important outskirts with 30,000 men. Furthermore, aid to them was on its way from other fronts. The chances were that the Loyalist forces, within plain view of their common enemies, would fight each other until...