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Word: misunderstood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snubbed and misunderstood, Father Malachy realizes that the world is not ready for miracles. The dance hall, which he hoped to convert into a shrine, changes its name to The Miracle Casino, does business by the boat load. On Christmas Eve Malachy kneels among the Casino's drunken customers and performs a second wonder which leaves things pretty much at scratch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines and building up his forms with wash after wash of semi-transparent color to get the right modeling of light and shade. Infra-red photographs of spurious Daumier paintings showed clearly how this sensitive process had been misunderstood and faked by inferior artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Definitely Daumier | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...each to the other and had to maintain card files to keep his machinations straight); represents the fun-loving, light-witted Alfonso XIII of Spain (chiefly notable during his reign for his gambols on the Riviera, his gambling at Deauville) as a monarch "cool, determined . . . dauntless," generally much misunderstood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Shots | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Craig's Wife" presents a different problem, both to the reviewer and in its subject matter. This is a tale of domesticity gone wrong, a problem of the misunderstanding and misunderstood husband and wife, and a story of the worm of a man who finally turned...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...every good public relations counsel knows, one photograph open to misinterpretation is worth more to the enemy than a barrage of scurrilous speeches. And last week from Germany, United Press relayed just the kind of chit-chat to make such a John Lewis' Soviet Embassy picture thoroughly misunderstood : the Nazi Anti-Komintern was out with an article declaring that in a Moscow museum hangs a map of the future Soviet America, on which the name of Detroit is changed to Lewisgrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Turning Point? | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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