Word: misunderstoodness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with some evidence of purpose cannot find any but a cordial welcome in these columns. The communication included here today, though written, perhaps with the feeling that graduate students should show a flippancy like unto, that of their juniors at the proper time, further reveals that the author misunderstood the purpose of the editorial to which he refers...
...scene shifts back to the private life of the four gigolos. The crisis passes, as laughter, blood of the play, flows freely again. In the last scene, the amateur gigolo appears in time to prevent Ann from running off with his professional colleague. After all, had not these two misunderstood souls been welded into an eternal bond by the Tschaikovsky business ? But why write of the play? The wisecrack's now the thing. To Actor Osgood Perkins, most of the many funny lines have been entrusted- and wisely...
...contributor to the Harvard Fund . . . says. "I hesitated some time to send anything so small as $5, considering the proportions of the project." Many graduates may be hesitating to subscribe to the fund for a similar reason. If they are, it is because they have in some way misunderstood the principles on which the Fund was founded. "The proportions of the project" are such that every man is asked to give only whatever it is convenient for him to give. The important thing, irrespective of the six of his check, is that he should become a contributor...
...that well known person, "the average American." Your witticisms, your skillful use of the English language, the brilliant literary style of your periodical?which as a news publication will probably attain in years to come as great a renown as Addison's "Spectator"?seem to be sadly misunderstood by a large proportion of your readers. Also, and what is more to be deplored, this attitude on the part of an uncultured list of subscribers seems to have reacted on you to the point of lowering the literary standard of the paper. May I not ask you, in the name...
Said he: "Bachelors are a much misunderstood class. . . . The proposal to lay a tax on bachelors [now widely bruited in England] would be opposed to all the accepted principles of taxation, which usually postulate that the more successful a man is the heavier should be his taxes. . . . To lay a tax on bachelors is thus unreasonable, for it would be a tax on failure, not on success...