Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek crowd threw rocks at the Japanese Legation. The Belgian Labor Party filed an official plaint. The Archbishops of Canter bury and York denounced the bombing of Chapei. Members of the Japanese Cabinet, alarmed, began to give interviews to foreign correspondents, in which they in sisted that their "misunderstood," that country's Japan was purpose only ful was filling its international "duty" at Shanghai...
...antics caused World Court Judge Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime U. S. Secretary of State and onetime "Nervous Nelly," to observe boldly from his fireside in St. Paul, Minn, last week: "The time for secret diplomacy in grave instances of this kind is past! Private conversations are apt to be misunderstood and misinterpreted. No nation has a right to consider itself aggrieved by having its attention called to violations or threatened violations of treaties. War is no longer the private affair of belligerent nations...
...lost $730,000,000 in six weeks, heaviest gold movement in history. Meanwhile U. S. citizens, alarmed at the spectacle of vanishing gold and failing banks, began to hoard, putting a severe and needless strain on the banking structure. When National Credit Corp. was announced (Oct. 7), foreign bankers misunderstood its purpose, sold dollars so heavily that the pressure bore the appearance of an attack...
...decency of the flag under which he fought. . . . There was a marked absence of the sober, well-behaved typical American. The other crowd is in power. That is why such numbers of staggering drunks disgraced the uniform and yelled for beer."* Dr. Wilson later said he had been misunderstood. All he meant was that some of the Legionaries had "dropped their Americanism, their Christian standards of decency, dropped into French customs and came back to import them into the United States." Nevertheless, officers of the Legion, feeling particularly insulted by the expression "staggering drunks," roared at Dr. Wilson. Besides attacking...
...confronted by interviewers, Wood began to weep. He said: "We wanted to get over first. . . . I've been racing for years and we've done the best we could to carry the American flag on our boats in a sportsmanlike way. . . ." He said he had been misquoted, misunderstood, misjudged...