Word: misunderstoodness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oklahoma) walked into the Senate while a vote was in progress. His name was called. He answered "Aye." One portion of the House smiled triumphantly-they knew that this one vote gave them victory. But the Senator who had been out of the Chamber began to think-he had misunderstood how the question was put. He rose and altered his vote from "Aye" to "Nay." The bill was beaten. One set of faces ceased to smile, another set began. This was what happened when the Bursum Bill, to increase the pensions of veterans and widows of the Wars from...
...most sustained novel, although she has produced excellent novels since then. Her interest in history still persists and, unless it has been totally disrupted by the great success of her recent work, she is working on a Life of Aaron Burr, whose character, she believes, we have all much misunderstood...
Subsequently Mr. Wahlberg denied that he had said "$68,000" but had said "six or eight cows," which Mr. Roosevelt must have misunderstood. He admitted, however, that he also had become suspicious of the transactions involved, was "very unhappy" in his post and was about to resign...
...melancholy, had never had the success in life that his natural abilities promised. Left alone by the sudden suicide of his sister, he was vaguely drawn into a search for belated romance and spiritual content. Three women crossed his path. He quite intended to marry the first, but they misunderstood each other fatally, and nothing came of it. The second became his mistress-and died of scarlet fever contracted from little Fanny, Frau Sommer's child, a patient of Graesler's. Graesler felt horribly about it-but Frau Sommer was so unostentatiously kind to him that he married...
...that the Alumni Bulletin has misunderstood and misrepresented the CRIMSON's point of view is perfectly natural. For the Bulletin represents an entirely different attitude toward university affairs. It is content to serve largely as a mere chronicle of events--an aim which is very estimable in itself but totally different from that which the CRIMSON believes to be the true end of university journalism...