Word: mix-up
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...story is not yet under way, A matrimonial agency, in a most improbable mix-up, sends to Mr. Huston's doorstep a young girl of nineteen to be his second wife and charwoman. She is not the solid matron that he wrote for, but a Gish girl, all pure and elfin and made for gauzed photography. She is frightened into marriage with Mr. Huston, whose name is Seth Something-or-other, anything but Parker; but it is plain to see that her destinies lie with Seth's more decorative...
Yale took the ball on her own three yard stripe. Parker kicked to Crickard on Harvard's 38-yard line. Wilbur of Yale smothered a buck by Sherry. On the next play a mix-up in backfield forced the ball to Harvard's 32-yard line. Then Wood kicked to Booth, who was downed in his tracks on Yale's 41-yard stripe...
...court last week the Government presented its case. Then Mr. Denison, one of whose three attorneys was Everett Sanders, onetime Indiana Congressman, onetime secretary to President Coolidge, took the stand, told his story: a mix-up had occurred on the steamship dock in New York. Mr. Denison had brought home a trunkful of china and glassware as gifts to relatives. By mistake this trunk went to his nephew in St. Louis and the liquor-laden trunk (presumably belonging to the nephew though Mr. Denison did not say so) arrived at the House Office Building. Declared Defendant Denison: "I never bought...
Sassoon apparently never lost his nerve, but never felt himself a very competent officer. "My main fear was that I should make a fool of myself. The idea of making a fool of oneself in that murderous mix-up now appears to me rather a ludicrous one; for I see myself merely as a blundering, flustered little beetle; and if someone happens to put his foot on a beetle, it is unjust to accuse the unlucky insect of having made a fool of itself...
Before Judge Adolph Joseph Sabath in Chicago last week stood Mrs. Charles Bamberger and Mrs. William Watkins, participants in a prolonged public dispute as to the identity of their respective babies after an apparent mix-up at a Chicago maternity hospital (TIME, July 28,et seq.). Each mother held a blue-eyed, snub-nosed son in her arms. Judge Sabath signed an order giving to each legal possession of the child she held. Yet he was still uncertain in his own mind as to which baby was which. Since there were two children, the famed maternity case of Harlot...