Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bethlehem merger, had received from Bethlehem a loan of $800.000 to replenish current cash drained by proxy purchases. Mr. Dalton testified that this loan had been repaid within a few days, testified also that Mr. Grace had regarded the loan as a "mistake" because it might be "misunderstood...
...reported to be the wife of an Army officer and apparently wishing to give everyone in the audience at least a smattering of his or her favorite dramatic cliche, has incorporated in her play a half-caste harlot with a heart of gold, a funny Chinaman, a courtly and misunderstood Castilian, a miserly husband, a disillusioned wife, a black-hearted Moro and various species of parade-ground fauna. Plot: Major Rodney, an Intelligence Officer, believes that if he can get his wife to make Julio Cortez confess that he is at the bottom of a seething Moro rebellion, he will...
...read TIME religiously. Your interesting resume of the Mormon Centenary in April 7 issue was profoundly impressing and gratifying to me, because of its unbiased and impartial survey of Mormonism in its true light. Inasmuch as I am of the opinion that the Mormon people have been misunderstood, your unprejudiced account was received as an added source of appreciation. May I congratulate the author of the mentioned article on having written the most accurate and impartial account of the Mormons which I have read in any of the national magazines. This gratitude-from an ardent reader of TIME...
When Mr. Hoover as President-Elect was feted in Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 24. 1928), he roused tremendous popular enthusiasm by calling Argentina "the world's bread basket," a remark which Argentines misunderstood to mean that Mr. Hoover favored the introduction of bread made from Argentine flour into U. S. bread baskets...
...Last week, convicted, she faced a sentence of five to ten years. When the prosecutor told the jury that "on her own testimony Miss McCann is a thief.' she jumped up and cried "How dare you?': Later she explained to a friend: "I think the jury misunderstood the whole thing. I was a victim of circumstances. What I did was to take money from some to pay others. Had my creditors given me an opportunity, I would have gathered enough money in time to pay all of them...