Word: misunderstoodness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the thunderheads of feeling which have enveloped him during his remarkable career, the dispassionate observer has seen him as a just man and an individualist who has had the courage to follow his firm convictions. Like the misunderstood and, therefore, the much reviled Trimmers of the 17th Century, he has often championed the weaker and discredited side. His services have often gone to the poor and the unfortunate, while he has not infrequently bettered the example of Abraham Lincoln by actually pleading the cause of a guilty man in order that the law, intimidated by the howls...
Such an experiment, perhaps the germ of a wider literary movement, has come at a propitious time. The much-abused and misunderstood renaissance of America's younger generation, of which the flapper-is commonly considered the only product, is-well started. Youth has asserted itself variously and with considerable effect. Up to this time it has had to fight for recognition and being immature, has in its enthusiasm acted often rashly or gone to sensational extremes. All contests for independence are characterized by such exhibitions--witness the French Revolution...
...than the power of the newspapers and selfish corporate groups is the power of public opinion formed by a day-to-day observation of actual conditions and always dependable at the polls. This may be a consolation for the man who would enter public life but who dreads being misunderstood or misinterpreted...
...story, they hired Owen Moore, Constance Bennett and a forest fire. Twirling this combination on a fairly familiar Western axis, they revealed an hour or so of highly satisfactory amusement. Miss Bennett plays the Broadway cabaret girl transplanted abruptly to the Western hills. Her lipstick and her silks are misunderstood by the conventional natives. But they go to her cowboy's head and he marries her by force. Their stormy honeymoon is completely surrounded by a forest fire through which they stumble to understanding and happiness...
...Dramatic Club is very desirous of not being misunderstood in this matter, and will consider it a great favor if you publish this communication in your columns. B. B. Hadfield Jr. '27, Secretary of the Dramatic Club...