Word: mixup
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General and his lady arrived in their private car, were escorted to the City Hall. At the front door they waited. Mayor Stewart and the city fathers expected them at the side entrance for a private reception in the Mayor's office. Minutes passed before word of the mixup reached Mayor Stewart who rushed down to find the representative of the Crown red as a beet under his plumed hat, and already seated on the reviewing stand waiting for the parade to begin. Stammering apologies Mayor Stewart asked his Lordship if he would care to come back...
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...Green is a redheaded, good-natured ruffian from a small town in Pennsylvania. His ability to smash chins and football lines while not indulging his other animalisms too much to spoil the main chance, gets him into a good college, into Wall Street, big money, a sound marriage. A mixup with a girl to whom he turns not for sex but, more subtly, as an outlet for his vulgarity, leads to divorce, dissipation, bankruptcy. And then the muscular, go-getting, self-preservative qualities of Johnny Green come into play again. Through a rich but sallow girl whom he never quite...
...Boston, who lately flayed radio jazz and "crooners" (TIME, Jan. 18), broadcast over NBC in Boston an introduction to a scheduled program of Easter music from the Vatican. At the end of his remarks the transatlantic radio blared forth not the Vatican choir but, thanks to a studio mixup in Rome, an Italian band torturing U. S. jazz...
Governor Roosevelt exhibited annoyance over the mixup. He threatened to make his letter public to prove its existence. Alarmed, the White House suddenly found the letter, admitted that it had been given to Governor Roosevelt's old friend, Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle, to answer. Mr. Castle had written: "Dear Frank...