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Word: misunderstood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fred Astaire plays the part of a misunderstood and much abused bachelor whom the decorative Ginger Rogers mistakes for the husband of a friend. However the plot, such as it is, is unimportant, except as it provides opportunity for clever farcical dialogue and terpsichorean wooing by Fred Astaire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 9/21/1935 | See Source »

...Stolen Harmony" is a mixture between a gangster pictures, a behind-the-scenes musical cofedy, and a bus romance. It has all the thrills known to conventional movie-land,--speeding busses, motor-cycles and sirens, gangster hideouts, a misunderstood hero, gauze covered females, crooning erotic paw dances, luxurious bars, a gun-battle, tough humor, raucous humor, dirty humor, love and kisses. The packed theatre drooled in ecstasy...

Author: By R. N. G., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/27/1935 | See Source »

...embarrassed country reads how viciously the benevolent Mr. Hearst has been misunderstood, but the sunny note creeps in when the Dean of AMERICAN Journalism reassures us that he stands for everything noble in humanity and that his chain of newspapers exists for the sole purpose of protecting us from the baser side of our natures. It is now definitely certain that Mr. Hearst's enemies have been shameless liars: his advertisement assures us that he is in favor of "American independence, American rights and liberties, free speech, free assembly, freedom of thought and action, and freedom of the press." What...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TATTERED ENSIGN | 4/23/1935 | See Source »

...years as a zealous alumna, clubwoman and W. C. T. Unionist, Martha Ijams had rarely been so misunderstood. When she read the White House interpretation, she tossed her blonde hair (which she wears in a modified Gibson Girl coiffure), determined to make her snubs crystal clear. Back to Washington over the press wires went her answer: "I have nothing but contempt for [Mrs. Roosevelt]. She is as presumptuous as usual in her assumption as to what I intended or did not intend relative to Miss Perkins. Why should I answer her? Nothing she ever says is worth answering. The obvious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spinster Snubber | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

...resonant title, makes small noise in thousands' of lines, though this reviewer ought to say, in fairness to Mr. Lehmann, that he has not counted them. A young man whom the Hogarth Press has published before, Mr. Lehmann is the English equivalent of Paul Engle. One must not be misunderstood; the metaphor is not mathematically accurate, for there are dissimilarities, but the total effect of both on the reader is the same. That is, they are young poets more lyrical than philosophical, though Mr. Lehmann is trying to feel his way toward a point of view...

Author: By W. E. R., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 1/8/1935 | See Source »

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