Word: mistakenness
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Well, we made the picture and that's that. The point is that Harpo and Chico are brothers but they are both strangers to me. And, as for Sam Marx of M-G-M who reluctantly confesses to being their cousin-well, he's slightly mistaken. The fact of the matter is, he happens to be their joint child by a former marriage...
Last week, they thought they had something just about nailed down. They were sadly mistaken...
Propaganda. Talk of socialism pervaded the atmosphere. In Gera the reporters listened to a nearsighted Communist professor, who might have mistaken his visitors for Soviet newsmen, lecture a training class for new teachers. He argued that Britain and the U.S. had "only formal democracy," struck at the British Labor Government, told the class: "Democracy is not the goal but the way to achieve the goal. As I have repeatedly said, the goal is socialism...
Colombia's authoritative Tiempo praised Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden's democratic intentions, but deplored his "mistaken policy" in Argentina. Grizzled old Francisco Castillo Nájera, Mexico's Foreign Minister, declared that he "could not see why Mexico, having kept relations with the previous [Argentine] regime, whose legality was questionable, should not now continue relations with [Perón] who as far as I know has been legally elected."* Brazil decided to send its ambassador back...
Moonlight's People. By the time Pericles became chairman of Athens' general assembly in 460 B.C., the pallid, inanimate population of the Acropolis might almost have been mistaken, by moonlight, for real people. Sculptures like Aphrodite (see cut) made the Pygmalion myth credible...