Word: mistakenness
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...summer is near. In his closing chapter Winston Churchill begins to sketch a program for The Third Day. His resurrection is not supernatural but earthly. The reader who finds in this chapter cold comfort may perhaps be pardoned. But he who finds in it mere idiocy may perhaps be mistaken...
...think you are mistaken in saying that "we are doing all we can by shipping planes" under the Neutrality Act; but "what they could use, of course, is a million men". As you then point out, we have no million men anywhere near ready; but we do have a good air force and a capacity for airplane production which could be greatly increased with governmental aid. We have great economic power which the Allies can draw on at present only subject to restrictions and hindrances. And lastly we have the potential power of making gentlemen like Mussolini hesitate...
Reaching the spot, searchers found cool, collected authorities, heard the true explanation: a barrage balloon had broken its moorings, and lest its trailing wires short-circuit power lines a French pursuit plane had shot it down. Parisians had mistaken floating fabric for parachutists...
...conveyed more successfully be other methods. Now Mr. Lewis, an artist himself, should know better than to make such statements. In the first place, who said that Picasso was trying to convey mass? No one except Mr. Lewis and the catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. And both are mistaken. Rather than enter upon an "a priori" discussion of what the artist intended to convey by examining the painting, I shall tell briefly what the artist has conveyed and give Picasso the benefit of the doubt by saying that he intended it. We must not take "period" catchwords nor catalogue quotations...
...Deutsche Kurzwellensender (German Short-Wave Transmitter), E. D. Ward, dropping puns and witticisms, spoke soberly of the might of the German military machine. He denied that German parachute troops had worn Dutch uniforms, declared that there were some half a dozen different Nazi uniforms which might easily have been mistaken for Dutch by untrained observers. He glorified the German air force; pooh-poohed the Allied blockade. Said he matter-of-factly: "The Norway fiasco has taken the heart out of the British people"; added that in the bombing raids over Great Britain civilians around the Thames estuary had ventured...