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Word: misleading (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What a spectacle have we be- held upon the European stage?as Shakespeare said in Hamlet?' then came each actor on his ass.' . It is not fair to mislead the American people. We must realize that at best, with the present obstacles to European economic regeneration, the establishment of European markets will be a long and difficult task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Mr. McCormick's Speeches | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

...respect, however, "The Cat and the Canary" fails as did its fellow, "The Bat". Both plays cry aloud for a solution from beginning to final denouement, but neither supplies a real clue from which the true secret can be deduced. In fact every effort is made to mislead the earnest spectator to a wrong conclusion. But this is an unimportant detail. Anyone who likes to spend an uneasy, riotous evening, and to observe the instability of his neighbor's equilibrium will do well to visit "The Cat and the Canary...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/10/1923 | See Source »

...Chicago Tribune received information from Moscow to the effect that the Soviet Government is doing its utmost to mislead U. S. Senators William H. King of Utah and Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota as to the conditions and the spirit of the population in Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tall Tales | 9/10/1923 | See Source »

...first act combine brilliance of color with an ingenious use of draperies, and the whole is no further from the actualities of Bulgaria than the nature of the piece demands. The garden scene, likewise, is most picturesque, and is not sufficiently like any known landscape as to mislead even the most realistically-minded...

Author: By W. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

...seems to me that a student should not be hasty in this very important matter. His patriotic impulse, excellent under certain circumstances, has been known to mislead him. If labor sees the universities as such taking a definite stand against it, will it not be justified in confirming an opinion already more or less universally held in labor circles, that the colleges are essentially "bourgeois...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unfounded Worries | 10/26/1921 | See Source »

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