Word: mistakenness
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...take their departure, his heroic sacrifice was in the normal tradition of the Japanese Samurai who inherits the fanatical feudal duty of dying willingly in case of need to save his superior. It was not clear this week, and it may never be clear, exactly how this most amazing mistaken-identity-murder occurred, but it did become clear that Premier Okada secreted himself first in a steel cabinet and later among kitchen wenches...
...indeed the Catholic Lyman child who, mistaken for a Jew, had just been circumcised by a mohel. In great agitation Mrs. Lyman arose, dressed, gathered up her baby, swept out of the hospital. Professing to believe that the b'rith made their child a Jew, the Lymans brought suit for $25,000 against the hospital and Hyman Bukanz, a professional circumciser...
...Bruening said that by giving Hitler complete power, Von Hindenburg had two hopes. "First, he thought it was the only way to maintain his own power, and secondly he hoped that it might lead to a restoration of the monarchy. In both, he was mistaken...
...good judgment of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate has probably saved this country from a most tragic mistake. The so-called neutrality bill so enthusiastically urged by many good but mistaken people, and by some who are neither good nor mistaken, would much more likely have involved us in war than kept...
...prisoner he fell heir to a large fortune and his sentence was commuted. Last week, fashionably dressed but prematurely white-haired and prison-pale, M. Quien was bustling about with his lawyers. "My demand is for a new trial and complete exoneration," he said. "This is a case of mistaken identity. It was not I but another man who disclosed to the Germans the activities of Nurse Cavell...