Word: mistakenness
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...where sailors were lured by drink to tell military secrets. Senator Barkley did not then or later give out the FBI 25-page report. He said it was too "disgusting and unprintable." He contented himself with declaring flatly that the whole "weird and fantastic story" was a case of mistaken identity: the man called Senator Walsh by the Post was really a different visitor altogether, portly like the Senator, about his age, but otherwise resembling him no more "than I look like Haile Selassie...
...hold of Beekman again, published his affidavit declaring the FBI had third-degreed him into admitting that he had mistaken Senator Walsh for another man, called ''Doc." from Connecticut...
...this time the fat was in the fire. Communist Willie Gallacher raised the "Scots Wha Hae" cry* of Scottish nationalism. M.P. Neil MacLean blamed "some confounded fool in the Admiralty" for allowing a famous shipyard to remain idle because of a mistaken idea that it had no engine shop...
...Curriculum and Tenure in yesterday's report. Yet from all these source a common danger begins to become apparent. The battle of words for "the preservation of a liberal education" is safely won, but the ranting continues to rage and center about this slogan. The symbol is being mistaken for the problem itself, and the all-important "how is scarcely mentioned...
Plot is secondary in the work of satire and this one, such as it is, revolves around the device of mistaken identies. The choice was a good one, for it borrowed a trick too conducive to humorous situations to have been exhausted by either Shakespeare or Hollywood. By means of it, Jack Benny can play everyone from a Polish actor to Hitler himself; that he remains very much Jack Benny throughout, only enhances the satire...