Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Express sent a reporter down to interview Mr. Chaplin at Juan-Les-Pins, France. The interview: "What's all this nonsense? . . . I received no command from the King, but merely a request from the music hall manager, named Black, to appear in a charity show. . . . Europe has bullied, misunderstood and misinterpreted me. I don't care a hang whether or not I ever make another film. . . . They say I have a duty to England. I wonder just what that duty is? No one wanted me or cared for me in England 17 years...
...Butler saw the newspaper, he rushed to Editrix Eleanor Patterson of the Herald, demanded retractions. Smart Mrs. Patterson stalled for time, tipped off the Press that General Butler had appealed to Secretary of the Navy Adams to create a diplomatic incident. Minister Bellegarde, flustered, protested that he had been misunderstood, misreported. He explained that he had not meant to deny the existence of the fort but merely to state that he had never seen or heard of it because all of its "ill-equipped"' native defenders were killed and a strict news censorship prevailed at the time...
...Sheepishly the Chinese commander later said he supposed the Iping had misunderstood his "signal to stop...
...Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover's world-significant career, and robbed him of whatever sentiment had been attached to his name. Losing faith in the Press, he has come to think of himself as a martyr in a hair shirt, misunderstood and misinterpreted by the People...
...There is and can be no charge made by the Insurance Company or its agent for putting the plan in operation. After this point has been repeatedly misunderstood let me repeat myself. The Insurance Company and its agent do not charge one penny against the Harvard Fund, against the 25th gift, or against the individual policy holder for its services in sending dividend checks to the Harvard Fund...