Word: misunderstoodness
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...know, furthermore, perfectly well that if the party machinery is against enforcement, it cannot be enforced. "I do not want to be misunderstood in this fight, although it seems difficult not to be misunderstood. I am against the liquor traffic. In that respect I take my Republicanism direct from Abraham Lincoln, who denounced the liquor traffic as the second curse of mankind...
...donor. With the decorum of true philanthropy, George F. Baker has allowed this monument to rise, has cooperated with Harvard in what to many still remain an educational novelty, but to the serious and sincere few is a significant advance in that ill charted march, made by that misunderstood plodder, education...
...Originally named Samuel Barnet, but at 14, just before his first stage appearance, he was accidentally dubbed Sam Bernard by the stage manager, who misunderstood his shy murmur. He kept the misnomer, made it legal...
...find a man who does not think in a fog. We really need some strict enforcement of penalties against, criminals and it is only a small cult of half baked intellectuals, among them Clarence Darrow, that has begun to wonder whether crime may not be, after all, a misunderstood form of virtue, that has interfere. Such men, to who any new movement is interesting and original, and a pernicious influence in the country an through their grasshopper like stridency have always given the impression that their numbers are much larger than they really...
...concern intended to buy up the American Woolen Co., dominant producer of its field. Vexed, he replied tartly: "We are not interested in any shape or form in the American Woolen Co. We don't like making formal denials of reports like these, because such denials are sometimes misunderstood as being ungracious, but that is the simple fact...