Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have also learned much more about our neighbors in the North, and that quality in men and women is not restricted to any section of the country. We respect and love our real worthwhile Northern neighbors quite as much as they could wish. We are too often misunderstood I think, and when ignorance and prejudice occasionally seem to be still harbored by all sections of our country, I feel that it may be worth the effort to try to correct (if possible) some of these thoughtless errors...
...false conception of Greece and the Greeks; we should welcome one treating the Chinese and Indian problems. One can but hope that Professor Babbitt will continue his studies in the Far East until he is able to supplement his books in other fields with one on this neglected and misunderstood subject...
...external facts seeks only to reveal the innermost character of the subject. His admiration of Saint-Beuve was shown early in his widely acclaimed works on Emerson, Lee, and Pepys; ever since that time, with amazing versatility, he has continued to lay bare the souls of obscure and misunderstood characters. Despite justified charges of superficiality, his popularity attracted imitators, but the peculiar intimacy of his style defied duplication; his creation has remained definitely his own. As the rehabilitators of "damaged souls" he has won a unique position among biographers and an unusual hold on his readers...
...Producer Florenz Ziegfeld is a reactionary at heart. In the face of a musicomedy renaissance, he has produced another melodious fable following a formula that has served for 25 years or more. The formula requires a lavish setting (anywhere outside the U. S.), one juvenile lead, one misunderstood ingenue, one comedian with straight man, a temptress, a torch singer (added since the War), a villain, and the more chorus girls the better...
Cleero was called a demagogue, Shakspere a catehpenny playwright, Lincoln a traitor, it is therefore not surprising to find that Huey P. Long is also misunderstood. A few months ago, by wearing pajamas at the reception of a German diplomat, Mr. Long almost predicated an international crisis. Only a few condoned his unusual evening dress, for only a few were astute enough to realize that behind that melancholy face, beneath that rugged brow, there dwelt the searching spirit of a statesman...