Word: mistakenness
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...incident had begun when a young Negro struck a white man. A white mob formed; the four policemen who were shot were mistaken by the Negroes for members of the mob, which surged into Mink Slide, Columbia's Negro district...
...Senin, who was built like a football player and might easily be mistaken for a junior vice president of the National City Bank, studied chemical engineering at Columbia in 1931. He wore impeccably cut blue pin-stripe suits-the best I saw in all Russia-smoked Lucky Strikes and talked with crisp, good-humored confidence. Since his job is the running of all industry in the Ukraine, it was hardly surprising that he suffered from stomach ulcers. When he was away for treatment at a sanatorium in the Caucasus, Khomyak had a good deal of difficulty in getting quick decisions...
Impediments to Marriage. Provisions of the proposed canon: bishops may withdraw Episcopal recognition of a previous marriage, remarry divorced persons after one year, by referring their decision to "impediments," in the presence of which the Church considers the previous marriage no true marriage. The impediments: consanguinity; mistaken identity; mental deficiency "sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice"; insanity; failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; impotence; perversion or venereal disease undisclosed to the other party; bigamy; a concurrent contract inconsistent with canonical marriage (such as a "companionate marriage" agreement); fraud; coercion; duress "or such defects...
Good, Noble, Occasionally Mistaken. Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was the Poetess-Pontifex. She once told Author Greenslet, "Ferris, you are a dear good boy, but you don't know a thing about biography, not a God damned Thing.'" Author Greenslet knows enough, at any rate, to have written a highly readable series of biographical sketches. In tone they are semi-official and rather adoring; apparently Lowells are rarely inspired by anything less than noble impulses and a passion for good works, though now & then they may make "mistakes." But at that, they are an interesting lot. Among them...
PHOTOGRAPH CAPTIONED SELLER COHN IN TIME, AUG. 26, IS WALTER C. BERGER, PRESIDENT AMERICAN FEED MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION. MORE DISTURBING THAN MERE MISTAKEN IDENTITY IS POSSIBLE CONFUSION OF MR. BERGER, WHO FOUGHT SUCCESSFULLY TO HAVE CONTROLS REMOVED FROM FEED GRAINS, WITH PACKER COHN, WHO ASKED FOR CONTINUED CONTROLS ON MEAT...