Word: mistakenness
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...January day last year, a woman visited Gynecologist Joseph Steven Deane in Queens County, New York City, and said she had syphilis. Several doctors had told her she was mistaken but she thought they were "in league" against her. Dr. Deane had a Wassermann test made by the Board of Health. When the test came out negative, he suspected his patient was suffering from syphilophobia-a symptom often caused by fear of sex. Thinking he could cure the woman more easily if he humored her, Dr. Deane changed the Board of Health report to "positive." Then he prescribed...
Everyone of course knows the plot by now. The Ghetto barber, mistaken for dictator Hynkel, gets to make the big address at a party rally. Instead of preaching tyranny and inhumanity, however, Chaplin himself steps out of character to preach his own democratic philosophy. Early reviewers pretty much agreed that this spoiled the picture. The changing events in Europe will make this statement of faith in democracy more appealing than some of the ruthless storm troopers' actions which now aren't quite so funny. As a whole the picture is a spotty job. In some scenes, such as the bubble...
...considerable number of distinguished journalists, novelists, and others. These visits not only provide the leaders of thought and opinion in our neighboring republics with an opportunity to correct many one sided and distorted views of our own country, but they also afford us an opportunity to modify mistaken notions concerning the other Americas'." he continued...
That afternoon a squad of police took Brother Gabriel in charge, locked him up in the Federal penitentiary. To Francisco Moreno Sanchez, chief of the Investigation Division of the District Attorney's office, he told his story again. Young Cacho Ramirez, he thought, had mistaken him for another man with whom the jeweler's son had quarreled earlier in the night. The gun had gone off accidentally. Witnesses at the tavern said they saw nothing...
Insisting that the food committee was mistaken and that the "real roots of the problem have not been touched," the petition takes up each objection of of the Committee in turn, refuting it. Concerning the problem of left-over foods, the waiters pointed out that, "to throw away foods would raise the cost of meals to Freshmen...