Word: mistakenness
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...tweeds. There was a brandy-snifter on the mantel-piece with a thin film of amber curving along the bottom. Vag decided that he cut a pretty smooth figure in front of the fire, especially when the tiny yellow flames spurted and gave his fact a ruddy gleam easily mistaken, he thought, for the flush of ambition of a young man about to graduate from Harvard. "But what do you want to be." came the quiet voice from the huge chair in the gloom beyond the firelight. Vag shuddered. That question again. His classmates who where set on being doctors...
...Crimson, along with other groups, is right in assuming that we were mistaken in entering the last war and that a German victory in Europe will not endanger our national existence, then the policy of strict neutrality is justified. But until those two propositions are proved, such a policy represents blind vanity, insofar as it assumes the general stupidity of our fathers, and dangerous shortsightedness, insofar as it fails to anticipate the repercussions of a Nazi victory in Europe. Charles O. Porter...
...understand that Mr. Russell was engaged to teach mathematics, but if his reasoning in that line is in accord with his obvious lack of logic in other lines, then Harvard boys will be going out into the world under the mistaken impression that two and two makes five...
...heavy (1,870-ton) Afridi with two two-gun turrets fore and aft, might well be mistaken for the Queen Elizabeth, Warspite or Valiant, by landlubber air pilots traveling 300 m.p.h. a half-mile aloft. The big (2,436-ton) Bison, with three stacks, could less easily be mistaken for the two-stacked York...
This year their troubles start when they go to a hospital with suitcases labeled M.D. (Mule Drivers), are mistaken for two medicos, end in jail. The show is garnished with such slapstick as putting a patient to sleep by letting him smell an old shoe, such gags as "Your head sets on one end of your spine and you set on the other." Silas gets broad at times, but never really dirty. What keeps it moving are its dances and specialty acts, its gold-toothed but good-looking chorus...