Word: mistakenness
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...conceivable that Warner Brothers had some trouble in finding an actor for the title role of "The Perfect Specimen," current offering of the University, and it is also conceivable that they were mistaken in finally choosing Errol Flynn for the part. Be that as it may, the picture is one which may be guaranteed to keep the audience awake and moderately amused until the Mickey Mouse comes around...
Reader McGill is correct. TIME erred in following the reports of the Associated Press and United Press which gave a mistaken impression. The case concerned a gift voted by stockholders of one corporation to employes of an other corporation, part of whose assets the first corporation had acquired but whose stock had been sold to a third party. Since the employes in question did not work for the stockholders who voted them money, the Court held that the money could not be considered a payment for services...
Dancer Astaire plays Jerry Halliday, an American musicomedy star involved in a muddled case of mistaken affinity. The service staff at Totieigh Castle are running a sweepstakes on the young mistress' suitors, and Jerry is not even listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth...
...results in America is the "mistaken belief that anything worthwhile must be hard, dreary, and in general against the grain. The more uninviting and erudite a course in college, the greater is the intellectual distinction for taking...
Contrite, Columnist Paris explained that a printer had mistaken...