Word: misunderstanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to have Bostonlans misunderstand my attitude, but I will say this. If there is an artistic element in Boston, if there is a drama-loving element, and by this I mean lovers of the higher forms of drama and not musical comedy fiends, this element certainly does not take the trouble to go to the theatre in anywhere near as large numbers as do the people of other cities. Perhaps the joke is on me, but I must say that whenever I have played before Bostonians I have found them the most unresponsive of audiences. Why this...
Professor A. B. Hart '80 spent the summer at Marblehead Neck. He told a CRIMSON reporter that he had carried on profound research work in the modern novel, with practical illustrations. When asked if he intended to publish any of this research work he replied, "You misunderstand me. I spent my summer sitting on my front porch reading modern novels...
...House deputations to various Massachusetts towns, which start out this coming week-end. Their object is to awaken the young people to the worth-while things of life, and to help the older people appreciate the problems and difficulties which constantly confront the young ones and which they frequently misunderstand or neglect altogether. And undoubtedly there is a field for such work an almost unlimited field, in which the success of the deputations must depend, like everything else, on the personalities of the deputies and on the wisdom of their methods...
...Boni ($2.00). The Negro problem again attacked in fiction, this time from an extremely modern and expressionistic angle. Virginia Hade, haughty Southern beauty, meets John Cloud, young, intelligent Negro, in the woods. They find each other sympathetic. Virginia's family and the other white people of the town misunderstand and set out to lynch Cloud. Virginia might have saved Cloud if she had tried, but she feels too indifferent-nothing seems to matter much any more-so she doesn't, and he is lynched. The form and style of the book should prove of great interest to students...
...sure no one in this room will misunderstand me for a moment when I say that I believe that a great deal of the credit, if credit there was, that was due to the negotiators for the rapidity with which that great question was solved, arose from the fact that neither the Governor of the Bank of England, nor I, nor Mr. Mellon, had ever at any stage of our lives been members of the legal profession...