Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Inspector General is the classic case of mistaken identity. The officials of an unnamed village learn that an inspector from St. Peterburg will soon visit their town, and may be travelling incognito. When they hear that a well-dressed stranger from Petersburg has arrived at the inn, they assume that he is their dreaded visitor. Actually, the young man is just a penniless fop who had lost all his money at cards and is stuck at the inn because he can't pay his bill. The mayor and his subordinates proceed to stuff their inspector with food, drink, and money...
This negative voter reaction is based, Collins asserted, on the mistaken idea that the bill is legislating a moral position on birth control. The bills' support contend, instead, that it leaves all voters free to come to their own decision. Collins hopes that widespread circulation of the MPHA petition will be able to combat this fear of voter disapproval in two ways. It will indicate considerable statewide support from an articulate and concerned group, and it will also spread information about the bill to the public
...will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When a third identical bag containing the downstairs maid's lingerie is shuffled on to the scene, the plot boils over in mistaken identities and furious bag snatching and switching...
Before Mort Weaver's death, Ella was his steady girl; afterward she began to date Robert, and in 1935 they were married. Ella is still frequently mistaken for a Caucasian and seldom volunteers a correction. "I don't say, 'Hello, I'm a Negro,' just as you wouldn't say, 'Good morning, I'm a Catholic' or whatever you are," she says. The Weavers have no children; an adopted son died three years ago in a game of Russian roulette...
...newspapers and the intransigents for his present difficulties, accusing each of sensationalizing the issues, and thereby exaggerating the positions of the participants. As a result, the man in the middle is ignored by both press and public. He is made to seem weak, inconsistent, and unprincipled. The moderate is mistaken for the opportunist...