Word: demy
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...city, has played guardian to the people, established their moral code. And that code, being the expression of the active and more bigoted members, has been both a rule of ignorance and a law of pettiness. When any urban group submits to the ethical dicta of a prejudiced and demi-intelligent minority, that group has lost whatever claim to progressive decency it ever possessed...
...there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
...George of England has a physician-a quiet man with a dry voice, a hard head and a sly wit-Sir Arbuthnot Lane of London, whose best friends speak of him as "Lane." Last week he gave a short talk to some 65 well known practitioners over their luncheon, demi-tasses in the stylish Union League Club, Manhattan. Now those who call Sir Arbuthnot "Lane" know that he is not the man to wad a speech with moss-bound medical verbiage, and they were therefore surprised to find in the newpaper synopsis of what he had said at that luncheon...
...James W. McKane, veteran missionary physician from Siam; Dr. H. C. de Souza-Arujo, Brazilian leper specialist; Dr. George W. McCoy, director of the Hygienic Laboratories at Washington, also addressed the demi-tasses. Their discourse was authoritative, technical, optimistic. They knew that their fellow guests, gentlemen who like them had ministered in dim jungles and remote frontiers to living bodies half liquified by ghastly corruption, were not easily put off their diet by good meat, good talk...
...lordly upper classes With their gilded demi-tasses. God help the walking goil...