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Word: mistaken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lady Falkland, after her husband's death, imagined that Byron (he had never seen her) was in love with her. She thought the women mentioned in his poems were herself. Her sons, Lucius and Plantagenet, shared her delusion. She wrote: ''Surely I cannot be mistaken! Byron, my adored Byron, come to me ... tell me, my Byron, if those mournful tender effusions . . . to Thyrza . . . were not intended for myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tin Box | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...sight, jumped bail after being indicted with his partner, Jake ("Gurrah")* Shapiro, on racketeering charges. People who knew about him began disappearing, also. Two were murdered (one just up the street from Police Commissioner Valentine's home in Brooklyn). Last month a harmless Bronx inhabitant was murdered, apparently mistaken for another man whose knowledge the Leopard would not consider harmless (TIME, Aug. 7). Up started a hue & cry against Tom Dewey for not protecting his prospective witnesses.* Thereupon Tom Dewey had the city post a $25,000 cash reward for Lepke, dead or alive, in addition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leopard Hunt | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Shortly he died, saying: "I haven't an enemy in the world. They must have mistaken me for somebody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Error | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...rebel against this regime, Charlie is shipped to a concentration camp, from which he escapes in stormtroopers' uniform, is mistaken for the Furor. With the real Furor imprisoned as an impostor, masquerading Charlie is involved by his air minister, Herring, in an aggressive campaign to humble the neighboring State of Vanilla. It is to the people of Vanilla, soon humbled, that old Pantymimist Chaplin makes his first big speech: "I don't want to conquer anybody. I want to do good by everybody. Because-because this is a big world, and there's plenty of room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Scripteaser | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Klemme described the operation at a meeting of the American Dental Association. The dentists were interested because tic douloureux is often mistaken for jumping toothaches or nerve pain following extractions and dental anesthesias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tic Tactics | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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