Word: mistakenness
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...establishment of the responsibility of Labor. Elected president of the Chamber and charged with pressing these points on Congress was 61-year-old George Harvey Davis, president of Davis-Noland-Merrill Grain Co. of Kansas City. If he wore octagonal glasses, stocky, brown-eyed, greying President Davis might be mistaken for his good friend Alfred Mossman Landon. Said he: "My only interest is to make the Chamber a super business organization with a united front...
...living part of his nation, and speaks to the world. French Author Gide's reputation is enormously greater than his popularity. He had never written a best-seller until, at 67, he visited what he thought was the Promised Land, returned to confess that he was mistaken...
...gentle parish priest in her quarrel, soon had all Clochemerle divided into Urinophobes and Urinophiles. Scandals grew and burgeoned, culminating in a near-riot in the church itself. After that, disasters followed fast. Jealous citizens from a neighboring village came by night, blew up the urinal; the Government, with mistaken zeal, quartered troops on Clochemerle and precipitated a real riot; the old maid went frankly, starkly crazy. Even then there was no telling what might have happened if a terrible thunderstorm had not descended on Clochemerle, ruined the grape harvest, cooled off everybody's passions...
...Norris, Wheeler, Nye, at many pro-Roosevelt newspapers which now oppose the Court proposal. Senator Edward R. Burke of Nebraska, leader of the pro-Court wing among Senate Democrats, declared: "If the President thinks that . . . those 'defeatist lawyers'.. . are the only ones ... he is sadly mistaken. The most bitter opposition to the plan is from people who wholeheartedly supported the President last November...
...constantly unearthing for their readers amusing and instructive tidbits. Declared the Frankfurter Zeitung, copies of which arrived in Manhattan last week: "We like to think of Vienna as a dream city where lovers sip their wine in soulful reverie pondering only how to please each other. We are mistaken, for last year 35,000 Viennese filed suits for defamation of character because somebody or other had called them 'Trottel' [dumbbell]. . . . These temperamental explosions cost in lawyers' fees and fines 2,000,000 schillings...