Word: misunderstoodness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo is in this one. It is silent, yet its climax takes place in the locale that sound pictures have dealt with more successfully than any other?a murder trial. Garbo's brilliance as one more misunderstood wife is alone responsible for the crowds that lined up a block long to see it in cities where it was shown last week. Her husband is older than she. She kills him when he is pummeling a boy who tried to kiss her. Her lawyer, who is her real lover, convinces the jury that her husband committed...
Next morning M. Briand said that the Havas Agency had misunderstood him, added that of course his telephone would have been answered if it had rung. In a bristling statement from which it appeared that somebody was lying, he declared: "To my surprise I learned in the evening that Daladier had decided to give up, and intended giving as an excuse that I had abandoned him. I immediately sent word that I was ready to collaborate. He gave up anyway, and I am beginning to ask myself whether what he hoped for from me was not collaboration, but refusal...
...greatly surprised at the comment my stray remark caused in the press. Lately I have received newspaper clippings from places as distant as Cape Town, Madras, and Ceylon. I don't mind what editors say about me, having been one myself. But I do dislike to be misunderstood...
...more out of bounds, in Secretary Good's opinion, than the cows that now roam the unguarded field where it was achieved. After his victory at New Orleans, "Old Hickory" Jackson returned to Tennessee, where in a cedar grove a dozen miles from Nashville he built for his misunderstood Rachel the Hermitage, famed in Democratic song and story. When Jackson was the first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion was the political centre of the land. Later it served its owner as a refuge from political storms. "Old Hickory...
...what he was hunting. But from Johns Hopkins went a protest to the press: "Please note that we have not used the word 'genius' once in our plan. We would appreciate it if you would avoid the use of this word, since it is likely to be misunderstood. "An accurate description of the new Johns Hopkins plan might liken it to the Rhodes foundation for U. S. students, with Johns Hopkins substituted for Oxford University, chemistry specified as the special subject for study, and U. S. Industry in the position of founder. From each of the 48 states...