Word: mistakenness
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...word of English, soon found himself in an American living room being looked over by a suspicious father. To get rid of him, the daughter craftily telephoned an Italian butcher, who blasted Giacometti over the phone for being a dirty old man. The show succeeded in a swirl of mistaken identities, mistaken overcoats and wonderful long tirades in uninterrupted Italian...
...Oswald himself joined the Marines in 1956, he was nicknamed "Ozzie Rabbit" because of his baby face and his reticence in making friends?which was mistaken for shyness. Yet he was twice court-martialed, once for unauthorized possession of a pistol and once for abusive language to a sergeant. And he was unpopular among his barracks mates for his open advocacy of Marxism...
...Russian for Marina. It told her what to do if he didn't return, wound up saying, "If I am alive and taken prisoner, the city jail is located at the end of the bridge through which we always passed on going to the city." (Actually, Oswald had mistaken the location of the city jail for that of the county jail...
Need something for an elderly maiden aunt? Here is romantic pish-tush, complete with nobility, scurrility, offstage virility, plight, blight, violent demise and intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations...
Although all three vehemently deny it, chances are that one of the groups staged the attack on the Sierra Aranzazu, either as a warning to nations trading with Castro, or in a case of mistaken identity, thinking it was the Cuban freighter Sierra Maestra, which had sailed through the same area the week before...