Word: misrepresentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At the present moment Americans are loudly praising our freedom of the press and insisting that all other nations should do as we do, but if freedom of the press confers the license to misrepresent and antagonize a friendly country, to insult and libel her sovereign, then our version of...
Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture...
Have American mothers any defense against being included by inference in such public immodesties? Is there any method whereby these females may be restrained from vulgarizing and holding up to ridicule a name so far held as honorable among us? Can they continue to misrepresent the American ladies whose sons...
In your screwy attack on Charles Lindbergh (TIME, Sept. 22) for classing Jews with British and the Roosevelt Administration as those crowding the nation into war, and charging "the ex-hero's appeal to prejudice and bigotry," you misrepresent him and the whole movement for a Constitutional war or...