Word: meaner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bright reds, blues, oranges, and yellows give a genial effect to a coat-sleeve; and nobody who was not a gentlemen would ever dare to wear anything of the sort. The coat should be either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should be cut high in the neck and long in the waist; a single breast makes display enough. Trousers, it is needless to say, should be at least eighteen inches in diameter. Black frocks have been worn for some time...
...Secretary of State who will sponsor such balderdash as this memorandum? Here we are in the midst of the most delicate international crisis that has arisen since the War, and we find the Secretary of State engaged in slanderous insinuation against a friendly government. Could anything be meaner? . . . This is a crime against the peace of the world. This is a crime against the honor of the United States...
...hears the knock of opportunity on the door that leads to Broadway success. Failing miserably in his tryout, he enters business to pay a debt. Three years later, a completely successful man of affairs, he climbs down from his office stool and returns to the vagabond life of the meaner music halls...
...best of the reviews undoubtedly give the essential facts, and present them more concisely than either reference book or lecture. Some books, said Bacon, "may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books." Most college assignments are of the sort worth reading; many of them are intended to be "chewed and digested...