Word: misleads
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...respect, however, "The Cat and the Canary" fails as did its fellow, "The Bat". Both plays cry aloud for a solution from beginning to final denouement, but neither supplies a real clue from which the true secret can be deduced. In fact every effort is made to mislead the earnest spectator to a wrong conclusion. But this is an unimportant detail. Anyone who likes to spend an uneasy, riotous evening, and to observe the instability of his neighbor's equilibrium will do well to visit "The Cat and the Canary...
...Chicago Tribune received information from Moscow to the effect that the Soviet Government is doing its utmost to mislead U. S. Senators William H. King of Utah and Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota as to the conditions and the spirit of the population in Soviet Russia...
...first act combine brilliance of color with an ingenious use of draperies, and the whole is no further from the actualities of Bulgaria than the nature of the piece demands. The garden scene, likewise, is most picturesque, and is not sufficiently like any known landscape as to mislead even the most realistically-minded...
...seems to me that a student should not be hasty in this very important matter. His patriotic impulse, excellent under certain circumstances, has been known to mislead him. If labor sees the universities as such taking a definite stand against it, will it not be justified in confirming an opinion already more or less universally held in labor circles, that the colleges are essentially "bourgeois...
...case, however, proves the German statements to be false. It has been shown by investigation that there are no accurate figures of the real financial status of Germany available. The German Government has carefully gone over the documents and arranged and falsified its financial statement in order to mislead the Allied commissioners. But by carefully checking up the German figures, it has been found that the Teutonic war debt is even less than that of the French. What debt there is, is largely owed to Germans, and therefore should be the last to be paid...