Word: mis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considerable restraint has been exercised in the handling of this theme, one which offered unlimited opportunities for mis-treatment, for hysterical sentimentalizing over a rugged memory. One imagines that if the virile shade of "Rock" could sit in the darkened theatre and watch J. Farrell MacDonald put some of his former tutees through their paces he would not return displeased to wherever football coaches finally retire...
...last half of the second stanza, which last week caused Mr. Snowden to take refuge in the tune, is (when mis chievously interpreted, as no loyal sub ject should think of doing) an explicit intimation that the King is not even smart enough to get himself out of petty political scrapes...
...less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen that the picture could hardly mis-fire...
Dive, A Royal Air Force flying boat carrying twelve men swooped in for a landing at Plymouth Sound last week. Mis judging his altitude, the pilot crashed the surface steeply at 70 m.p.h. Nine were killed...
...spell of his personality has lifted, scientist may remember him as the first observer of the gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes. Unfortunately, some of the fabulous native stories of the gorillas were mis-construed as his own, among them tales of the beasts abduoting native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized in the subject, Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., vindicates Du Chaillu's account on the basis...