Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...concern intended to buy up the American Woolen Co., dominant producer of its field. Vexed, he replied tartly: "We are not interested in any shape or form in the American Woolen Co. We don't like making formal denials of reports like these, because such denials are sometimes misunderstood as being ungracious, but that is the simple fact...
...cult must have a shrine or citadel. Bernarr Macfadden built his at Spottswood, N. J., "The Physical Culture City." Pilgrims groaned when they found they must pay board and yet fast for two weeks. But the city flourished, perhaps on compensations which the New York World misunderstood when it attacked the city as a nest of impropriety and license. These attacks put the city out of business, nor could its Sultan retrieve damages from the World in court. The times were narrow, oppressive. Even a chain of Macfadden lunchrooms failed, all save three, after "revolutionizing the restaurant business" so that...
...President holds that the criticism directed against the Administration, suggesting a departure from the present policy is injuring the standing of the United States in Latin-America because of the possibility that our attitude may be misunderstood by some articles in the American press. Some of these articles, the President holds, create the impression that American sentiment is divided. This is not the case, he feels. Foreign governments, in his opinion, are frequently misled into supposing that the American people are not behind the Administration's policy... the President feels that it is important that the attitude of the press...
...much noise has resounded in the press rooms from typewriters pregnant with messages concerning the morals and luck of morals in the American college and university. The final supposedly deft, handling of such stupid trifling with misunderstood ideas is the symposium, so fundamentally truthful, accomplished by multiple lists of questions sent about the country to various and sundry editors of college papers. The list which Liberty has sent included such valuable, succinct, and apt interrogations as these...
...similar in intellectual background, different in that it has developed in another atmosphere among other scenes. It will not be impossible to find such men for this position, uniquely difficult as it is. Cambridge, this last summer, has vibrated to the intense vigor of the too often misunderstood T. S. Eliot. And, though he lacks the maturity which is to mold his work into even more adequate accomplishment, Stack Young is admirably equipped for just such a task...