Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Bronx, N. Y., a small merchant went to a branch of Bank of United States and asked officials to buy his stock in the institution. They told him to keep it, that it was a good investment. He misunderstood, and by late afternoon a good-sized run had developed. Police kept clamorous depositors in line. The bad news spread to other branches...
Ignorance of the law is believed by officials to be the chief cause of this delinquency. However, the fact is also pointed out that the cost of securing licenses and insurance policies has been greatly misunderstood. Total cost for the rest of the year would be in the neighborhood of $15. Of course, renewals must be made for the year...
They were. But Monsignor Seipel met the situation. Prince von Starhemberg, whose words had only one meaning, was made to say that he had been "misunderstood." Seipel Disciple Vaugoin said...
...pamphlet Proposal for the Extension of Religion) signed with his own name. Though a minister of the Church of England, Swift was born, says Van Doren, with a genius for hate. "Hatred was native to Swift, as love was to St. Francis. If Swift has been more frequently misunderstood than St. Francis, it is because men are allowed to love without giving reasons for it, but not to hate." His bitterest satire has become a harmless nursery tale (Gulliver's Travels). One of the most lucid minds of a lucid century, he died insane...
...rules on themselves than those conventions from which they are revolting. However the future trends of art lie in the hands of this so called modernistic group and this fact alone makes them worth watching. It should not be forgotten that the established order of today sprang from, the misunderstood radicals of yesterday...