Word: misleads
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...asked to subscribe to the opinion that they were interesting and worth reading, which I gladly did then and would do now. I have never regarded them as other than a contribution to curious literature and chaste levity. They are amusing and edifying and will certainly not mislead anybody worth misleading...
Roared C. I. O. Chairman John Llewellyn Lewis, generalissimo of the steel campaign: "The steel barons are engaging in some amusing antics. They are shadow-boxing with their self-created company unions in an attempt to mislead the steel workers and the public into believing they are bargaining collectively with their employes. They are fooling nobody by their mental gymnastics, but instead are making fools of themselves...
Possibly the only objection one could find to "Carnival in Flasders" is that there are traces of drama in the beginning which mislead one, for the whole thing turns into high comedy. Jacques Feyder's direction is well paced and takes full advantage of every situation, but the semi-serious tone of the first few scenes leaves one unprepared for the satire to follow. On retrospection, Madame Burgomaster's harangue, "Femmes! Femmes! Our men have failed us!" is seen as a keen stroke of burlesque, but at the time it looks like drama overdone. This is but a minor fault...
...believe that Dr. Carrel is willing to befuddle and mislead the public and injure science and medicine for the shallow fame of personal publicity...
...Louis Lively, mulatto brush-maker who had the habit of cutting little girls' throats, was trapped when Detective Parker noted that Lively always used the same type of false tips to mislead police...