Word: misunderstand
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...that, as a student of my fellow countrymen, I should greatly like to see a compilation of the statistics resulting from your study. It has been my plan to write a book some day, classifying the citizens of our country according to their sense of humor. Do not misunderstand me when I declare that TIME'S sense of humor is utterly unique in my experience. Your coupon was a prize example of it. I should never suggest that your readers are primarily attracted by your sense of humor, for of course your intent and achievements are primarily sober...
...misunderstand them and they misunderstand us. While we say, 'Americans are hypocritical,' they say, 'Oh, Hell, that is a bunch of foreigners." The number of open-minded students is increasing on both sides, but they are called 'radicals' 'reds' and 'atheists...
...prime object of college athletics is character building, not victory on river or field, and the alumni who demand the scalp of a coach merely because his team fails to win misunderstand the purpose and mission of the coach. This was the burden of a series of heretical utterances by William J. Bingham, director of athletics of Harvard University, in an address before the Beacon Society Saturday night which, anomalous as it may seem, won the enthusiastic approval of representatives of Dartmouth. Amherst, and Yale, who commended the attitude of Director Bingham in the warmest terms. The diners were hardly...
...people, not too easy to portray. Nor are vicars on the longest of vicars' vacations. But Mr. Cannon realizes the Barriesque quality in the play with delightful results. William Duke, who wants a "keen" world, who likes his vicarship with lambent sincerity, who knows enough of life to misunderstand death--he is exact and competent, more so than can usually be expected in stock productions with red asbestos curtains and singleton orchestras. Miss Newcombe as the formidable Mrs. Clivedon-Banks; Miss Ediss as Mrs. Midget, romanticist atheist--they do not quite approach reality. The one is too boisterously appreciative...
...capacity of the average audience to completely misunderstand and misinterpret, to imply humor where none is intended, to mistake frankness for vulgarity,--this is most discouraging to the actor...