Word: misrepresentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"One of the matters of which the Crown complains is that for these two years large hidden reserves-the existence of which was perfectly proper and legitimate but which never had been disclosed to the shareholders, which is not illegitimate-were passed off as profits so as to misrepresent to...
...purist with their miming of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Harpist Carlos Salzedo's arrangements of Troubadour airs, Ernest Bloch's Quatuor a Cordes. Critic Olin Downes of the New York Times wrote: "It is not possible to refer dispassionately to the complete misrepresentation of the noble music of Bach. To this music of Gothic design and Apocalyptic splendor the audience was privileged to behold the strange struttings, posings, leapings, of a man at the base of an elevation upon which and about which were grouped seven maidens in red tights. This performance...
Admittedly, Harvard would gain nothing by a relapse into its former silence, allowing the press to misrepresent the University because of faulty information. On the other hand, such instances as that of yesterday succeed in reopening a breach, too recently closed, which can lead in the end only to mutual...
According to the Census Bureau, 2% of the total U. S. population was jobless. Mississippi and South Dakota tied for low score with only ½% of their inhabitants unemployed. Joblessness reached its peak in Michigan where 3.3% could not find work. New York, with the largest jobless list (364,617...
The motion picture is primarily interested in entertaining. Its field is the drama of life. It is a mirror held up to nature. It presents the evil with the good, but goes farther than real life by showing the triumph of right over wrong. The motion picture as a medium...