Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hubert Humphrey is bouncy and brash. Married in 1936 ("It was love at first waltz"), Muriel has always been politically obliging (she turned up on TV's Masquerade Party dressed as Minnehaha). In 1954 she started the Minnesota Women for Humphrey (neighborhood coffee parties, etc.). She has been mistaken at times for Mamie Eisenhower (who once told her: "How nice and well-behaved your bangs are"), puts politics second to keeping her family (four children, aged ten to 20) together, says: "You can't be a social butterfly and a good mother...
...Love and War (20th Century-Fox). In the midst of a battle sequence in this movie a wisecracking marine picks up a jangling field telephone. "Good morning," he says cheerily. "This is World War II." He couldn't be more mistaken. This is World War II as it seems, 13 years after the bloody fact, to a corps of Hollywood professionals who have unquestionably seen more scenes of combat in movie houses than in any actual theater of war. The big push in this picture, even though it is carefully filled out with official military footage, smells unmistakably...
...John Hall and Charles Ford, were new appointees with brand new Ph.D.'s and with serious plans for their own scholarly achievements. Both men were tall and thin, and both were blond. If a colleague in another department did not know them very well, he might even have mistaken one for the other. During a department meeting, Hall had got up and made a brief but rather passionate speech about Professor Greg, saying he was world-renowned, how proud he was to be teaching a course that Greg had once taught, and how indebted to him everyone in their profession...
...Schenley Industries, whose President Lewis S. Rosenstiel has even more urgent feelings about bourbon than did the Rev. Garrard. Schenley reportedly holds 60% to 70% of all the old whisky in the U.S. (most of it bourbon), mainly because it over-stockpiled during the Korean war on the mistaken theory that a shortage was in store...
...Crimson's editorial of October fourteenth is valuable for the light which it throws on the difficult situation of the 150-1b. crews. But it leaves the reader with a mistaken impression. The present confusion is not due to the HAA's "not seeing its way clear to end a clearly makeshift situation...