Word: misunderstoodness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon to appear in Manhattan, with Norman Trevor in the leading role. If Winter Comes, a dramatization of A. S. M. Hutchinson's recent best seller, is to open on April 2. Cyril Maude, who will be recalled in Grumpy, is to appear' as the much misunderstood Mark Sabre. David Belasco's production of The Merchant of Venice, with David Warfield as Shylock, is to be produced ii- London. The Music Box Revue is also about to be offered to the London public. The San Francisco Theatre Guild has disagreed amongst itself and disbanded. In the course...
...fellow citizens. His presence in most civilized communities may amount to a public nuisance. But the longer he was kept in prison, the greater would be the halo of "martyrdom" to gather about his head Lloyd in prison, like Gounaris executed, could appear in the light of a misunderstood, much-maligned patriot...
...worst, no one of the famous "Fathers" can be so misunderstood in the present as he was by his opponents in his own time. History and biography, incorrect, partial, prejudiced as they may be, are the invisible and inutile Truth compared with the illusions and delusions, the frantically swallowed calumnies and legends and lies that are the average contemporary judgment, by his adversaries, of a public man. New documents, new lights are often accessible to posterity, which ought to be able to contemplate with a calmer eye those old animosities. Why shouldn't the men before 1800 be painted...
...seems a pity that two public men so much misunderstood by sections of their respective constituencies as May of Bylan and Mayor Curely, cannot meet more often. It is plain to the most superficial observer that Mr. Curley is a good deal vexed with the Civil Service Board, while Mr. Bylan betrays at times an emotion that virtually is irritation; has he not said that a statement of the transit commissioner is "a characteristic piece of dishonesty". Different writers have different styles, but it is no disrespect to two famous men to say that their indignation at times is terrific...
...rebuke from Mr. Saltonstall, as published in the next column, is merited. The CRIMSON can only apologize for the omission and explain that it was the result of a misunderstood order. We concur sincerely with the sentiments expressed in the letter and assure the many friends of Mr. Leavitt that, despite our tardiness, we share with them their sense of loss in his death...