Word: mistakenness
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...social club has every right to choose its members selectively, using any criterion it sees fit. But the abuse of this right by a patently commercial tavern, operating quite openly for private profit and not for the social benefit of any select few who gather there, must not be mistaken for a legal or moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter in their wallets, the law of Massachusetts proscribing racial discrimination stands flouted and helpless...
...gets to be a nuisance when a boyish-looking U.S. Congressman can't stroll through the Capitol without being mistaken for a House page. Pennsylvania's George SarbacherJr., 27, Massachusetts' John Kennedy, 29, and Missouri's Marion Bennett, 32, were the chief victims. The House decided it had to stop. From now on House page boys would have to dress like Senate pages: black tie, white shirt, blue serge suit-with knickers. The pages rose as one boy. A uniform, yes. Knickers, never! The House yielded...
Smash-Up (Walter Wanger; Universal-International) could be mistaken, on its surface, for just another of those wife-v.-secretary "problem" movies which are called, with unconscious contempt, "woman's pictures." But beneath its soap-opera surface, it takes some perceptive looks at a marriage going to pieces...
...Greece with whom I could make friends." During his years in exile he apparently felt quite at home in the limbo of throneless royalty, where frayed memories of grandeur are brushed and brushed again like aging cutaways. He dresses well-perhaps a little too well: he was once mistaken for a headwaiter in a London restaurant. He has shot tigers in Nepal, tried his hand at writing movie scenarios, was once offered (but declined) a job selling real estate in Florida...
...Philharmonic executive committee last week, he knew he could have the Chicago job with the crook of a finger. So did the committee. He blew off at Arthur Judson, but if anyone thought Rodzinski was a white knight out to unseat music's Mr. Big, he was mistaken. "I don't hate Judson," Rodzinski said. "I've learned to eliminate hatred...