Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charge: "Willful" desertion . . . "guilty, obstinate and continued." Newshawks shouted news of the suit up to Mr. Walker's hotel window in Cannes, France, at dawn while he was applying hot irons to his lumbago pains after a night club party. He shrilled down, "I have been fantastically misunderstood. The action is absurd. Shut up!" and slammed the window. In the next few days he said he would contest, would not, left the decision to his lawyer, was grateful for Mrs. Walker's tactful charge of desertion, not adultery. Worried about cash, Mr. Walker was lazily writing magazine articles...
...Deity on the stage.) The Bible, says Shaw, is a mess; the extent of the messiness is just beginning to be shown up by modern translations. He calls the Book of Revelation "a curious record of the visions of a drug addict." All religious leaders, he thinks, are misunderstood by their followers right from the start. Christianity "is an amazing muddle, which has held out not only because the views of Jesus were above the heads of all but the best minds, but because his appearance was followed by the relapse in civilization which we call the Dark Ages, from...
Miss Crothers has tried so many combinations of the misunderstood wife, the neglected and frigid husband, and the frustrated spinster that she does not get very much intensity into scenes that should be dramatically poignant. Although it is not the fashion to be aroused or wistful, surely the scene where Caine Woodruff, the publisher's wife finds out that she is in the same room with the woman who has enticed her husband, and the parting scenes are too artificially cool...
...Viking ancestors would have approved the first part of the late great Fridtjof Nansen's life, would have misunderstood or laughed at the second...
...these things his box was filled with bids, which he answered in person. By virtue of these things his classmates, descendants of the purest Puritans, or only sons of Midwestern farmers, his classmates who wore their shabbiest clothes as was the fashion, and who hated spending, which is vulgar, misunderstood him, then forgot him. So he devoted himself to the world of engraved bids, and at the end of the year received a polite note consigning him to that other world, from which there is no return--to Cambridge. The Freshman dropped from sight and mind, and of him nothing...