Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...becomes poetry. A current convert to this theory is Novelist Rupert Hughes, who has written an introduction for a book* by a Miss Virginia Church, California schoolteacher, in which he says she reminds him of Edgar Lee Masters and Sappho. He calls her pages "poems," a definition which may mislead other schoolteachers or puzzle them when they read what are really excerpts from an observant, slightly sentimental diary filled with familiar schoolhouse fauna. Samples...
...Hoover knows just as well as I do that the power of making tariffs could not be transferred from Congress to a commission without an amendment to the Federal Constitution, and there was no reason for that statement at Boston, unless it was intended to mislead the people as to what my belief about the tariff...
...William Allen White assumes to be big enough to tell the whole truth, but being a Republican editor, it is hardly to be expected, especially if smothering some of it will mislead readers and perhaps redound to the benefit of his party...
...word annulment, both on the card and in the editorial, is misleading. It is well known that the Church on sufficient evidence may declare a marriage null and void from the beginning and therefore no marriage at all. Intelligent readers will so understand the card; but it will as surely mislead and deceive the unintelligent. JOHN J. BURKE, C. S. P. The Living Church's rebuttal: . . . We had hoped that such Roman Catholics, particularly of the American press, as were disgusted . . . would be emphatic in their condemnation, especially if the man has no official position in his Church...
...defend Judge Greenwood in the ensuing debate, now arose National Democratic Committeeman James H. Moyle of Utah, a bulky, bearded, monogamous* Mormon, who declared that he had come prepared to discuss principles, not politicians. "You men do not represent Western sentiment," he frowned. "Why mislead the East that there is a great movement being launched in the West when you men know you only want him for a candidate because you like...