Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gooks and geeks of creation; Believe-It-or-Not is the name of our star. Each of us here thinks the other is queer and no one's mistaken since...
Reserpine, synthesis of which was announced by Harvard's Professor Robert B. Woodward,*has the advantage over chlorpromazine that large doses can be given to calm acutely disturbed patients. Cincinnati's Dr. Douglas Goldman reports that it often produces turbulence after a few days, which may be mistaken by attendants for a worsening of the illness, but the turbulence is a passing phenomenon. Mississippi's Dr. Veronica Pennington finds that the most enduring tranquilization of state-hospital patients comes from reserpine; its effects persist as long as a month after the last dose has been administered...
...play begins to lag when the slap-stick is over. Randall, who himself plays the part of Malvolio, has turned the obvious solution of mistaken identities and misconceived ideas into minor melodrama at times. This converts Malvolio, actually a man of simple vanity and self-love, into a deep and muddled man. While it leads to great exploration of his character, underscoring of Malvolio's role seems disconcerting because he is actually superficial and should not arouse any real sympathy. Initially Malvolio's frustrations are good fun in the bawdy pattern of the designs against him, but later his quasipathos...
...British thought that such documentation would numb the shock which the deportation caused at home and abroad, they were mistaken. Cried British Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell: "This seems to me an act of folly." Echoed the Liberal Party's Leader Clement Davies: "An act of madness." While imperialist-minded newspapers like Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express approved, the Manchester Guardian editorialized: "By this action the British government will have made Archbishop Makarios more than ever the leader of his people . . . Now there can be no settlement...
...brothers became quiz stars because Bachelor William got mad at Garry Moore: "I was watching I've Got a Secret one night, and the man's secret was that his great-grandfather had constructed the first U.S. bathtub. I said to my mother that the man was mistaken." Bill wrote Garry Moore a caustic letter pointing out that all his facts about the first bathtub were based on a famed newspaper hoax written in 1917 by H. L. Mencken. Garry Moore never answered...