Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing is Mr. Ickes called "Honest Harold." When he saw himself given credit for an accidentally erudite coinage not in his 13-lb. dictionary, he promptly disclaimed it. His listeners had misunderstood him, he said. What he had called Mr. Talmadge was not "eneciable" but "ineffable...
After 20 minutes, Franklin Roosevelt left the train. Photographers recorded the solemn occasion (see cut). It was announced that next day's White House press conference was cancelled lest anything the President might say be misunderstood in war-frightened Europe. The impression was that Washington expected the worst hourly, that Peace hung by a heartstring...
...Times, same day, admitted the caption writer had "misunderstood the instructions. . . . Those who don't make mistakes never make much of anything else...
They wrote Were We Guinea Pigs?* said the 55 authors, aged 17 to 18, because progressive education "is often misunderstood." In clear though slightly stiff language they told who they were (with charts)-a group with better than average intelligence, most with family incomes over $4,000. They also described their teachers-"a very unusual collection. . . . One gentleman spends his summers paddling around Europe in a canoe. . . . We have fine co-operation among our faculty. Some of our teachers have got along together so well that they have married...
Perhaps the New Deal might be defined as bewildered idealism, leftish in objectives, rightish in methods, misunderstood by liberals, misused by conservatives, mistrusted by businessmen-but still relied upon reluctantly by indebted farmers, doubtfully by organized labor, helplessly by the unemployed, and hopefully by bewildered idealists...