Word: mistakenness
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...topic is more susceptible to the satirical pen than that of politicians and petty graft. Actual proof of this statement is being presented this week by the Harvard Dramatic Club at Brattle Hall. The play is the Russian comedy, "Inspector General" by Nicolai Gogol. A simple story of mistaken identity--one of the most satisfactory of comic devices--provides the basis for two hours of continual merriment. In a small city of Tsarist Russia the corrupt officials are visited by an Imperial inspector with highly unorthodox ideas of reform. He spends his time accepting bribes and making promises, attempting...
This satirical farce uncovers governmental corruption in a rollicking series of scenes. Bob Keahey '45, mistaken for the true Inspector-general who is to investigate municipal inefficiency, arrives in a small Russian town, and after being wined and dined by the officials, proceeds on an attempted seduction of the mayor's wife, Jackie Proctor, and ends up mistakenly engaged to his daughter, Edie Bronson...
...common belief that House Crew is not a serious sport is greatly mistaken, according to Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics. All men must have had previous experience, he said, and in the past several House crew men have moved up to the Varsity. Their reputation suffered somewhat last year when one of the boats was run ashore, splitting it from bow to stern...
...Islands. Jap scouts hovered over Australia's northeastern tip and the islands of the Torres Strait. U.S. P-40s based at Darwin met attacking bombers and fighters, knocked several from the sky. Jap warships were reported here & there on the approaches to Australia, but either the reports were mistaken or the Japs were feinting, feeling for Allied naval weakness...
...Lady Has Plans (Paramount) was apparently conceived as an excuse for undressing Paulette Goddard. It requires her (a radio leg-woman) to be mistaken for a pretty spy who has a U.S. military secret inscribed on her back in invisible...