Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is material which will be equally attractive to the seasoned Whitehead student and to the uninitiated. But the title "Adventures of Ideas" should not mislead any one into believing that it is a popularization of Professor Whitehead's ideas. It stands on exactly the same level with the two other members of the trilogy; yet it is not as abstract and difficult to understand as the others, because it deals largely with historical studies...
...naive Pbns ways and docile disposition mislead some people. She is smart. She works hard on her music although her natural musical instinct is phenomenally sound. It did not take her long to learn that a prima donna who travels with pets gets photographed: she brought a baby jaguar back from her triumphal visit to Buenos Aires this summer. She also has learned that divorce rumors after sudden success are bad publicity. Separated from her husband, she says: "Divorce...
...pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately misrepresenting the Democratic position. "The difficulty under which the President labors [is] obvious," he declared, "and the reason for his use of meaningless words is clear. It is the difficulty that always attends sacrificing principles for votes. . . . His statement proceeds . . . to mislead the people. . . . The present leadership stands convicted...
...Matt are all in love with the same girl in a rural district "north of the Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...
...Listening? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Although only the title of this picture is borrowed from Tony Wons's radio activities, Are You Listening? contains sufficient broadcasting hokum to mislead the uninitiated into believing that life in a studio is a combination of hangovers, sensational denouements and bleached blondes who arrive late for the dog biscuit hour. William Haines, a continuity writer of radio hogwash, has a private office, a secretary, an insufficient salary and a venomous wife who nags him whenever he comes home, which is seldom. For love he has turned to an artist in the studio (Madge Evans...