Word: misunderstood
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...