Word: mistakenness
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...Mistaken Identity...
...neglect to point out an interesting sidelight: what became of Bubbles as opposed to Bubbles. If I am not mistaken, Bubbles also became famous and is today Admiral [Sir William Milburne] James, Royal Navy, Commander in Chief, Portsmouth. In any case I know that the admiral is known to most of the men in "Pompey" Barracks as "Bubbles...
...British troops had landed on the island. With a little fighting and few losses they had soon taken Diégo-Suarez and territory surrounding that naval base, chief port of the big French island. The British thought then that Madagascar was safely in British hands. But they were mistaken...
...country, I think it can be said that by & large the social workers of the U.S. earned their spurs during that period and demonstrated in city after city that it was both possible and feasible to administer relief on a human, scientific and economical basis. Unless I am greatly mistaken, the reconstruction period following the war will enable him to make an even greater contribution to our civilization than he has yet made...
...Party leader, Air Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair, who from hailing distance could be mistaken for Disraeli, put it: "If we [the British people] are to avoid the alternative evils of economic anarchy and bureaucratic stagnation, we will have to make very considerable changes in the machinery of government...