Word: misleading
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They were not the sort of knavish sprites that frighten housewives, pinch old men sleeping, and mislead night-wanderers. No, they were kindly imps. "Every one of the Brownies does good," once said Palmer Cox, "without any thought of reward. Every one of my Brownie books is packed with morals, but I don't think that the children who read them have the least idea that they're there." If the children had, the Brownie books might not have become as they did, standbys in every household...
...Henry Cabot Lodge, who made Coolidge at Chicago, and unmade him at Washington, 'with rolling eyes spews fine speech about duty and like phantasmal attempts of his flighty mind,' attempts to weave new webs of intrigue and to again ensnare and mislead the American people...
...foreign labels. But it is not a temperance lecture-its moral is put over too painlessly for that. Behind it is an occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner Baxter stand out in this film...
...will enable strong competitors to take advantage of a temporary weak condition of smaller concerns. And, on the other hand, fraudulent concerns would gladly pay a few thousand dollars a year, falsely disguised as profit, in order to mislead the public. People who wish to disguise their wealth will be stimulated to further evasion. It can add nothing to revenue returns...
...during the past three months, whose marked symptom was a wasting, intermittent fever." This despatch inferred that the rumors in Russia about Trotsky were more numerous than those received by the outside world, and that the political dispute of which Trotsky is the center, was "so hot as to mislead some of the Communists themselves." Léon Trotsky, son of a Jewish farmer of the Ukraine, is 44 years of age. At nine he went to Odessa and studied at St. Paul's High School, where, says he: "I displayed great diligence in my studies and always...