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Word: meanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rogers: "To illustrate what I mean, I will tell you the story of Carl Bronner, a boy who not only gave both of his eyes for us, but who gave both of his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Another Widow's Debut | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

...that is that or more. Anyway for so and so many minutes close up follows close up and paragraph, inane and sententious as only Arlen can be, follows paragraph, while people turn each to each and both to both and coyly say, "Typically Arlen." Which may or may not mean anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/12/1926 | See Source »

...cursory observation the latest CRIMSON prohibition poll may mean practically nothing. Yet like most attempts of kindred nature throughout the country this does actually evidence a certain slow movement from the intolerance of emotional morality to the tolerance of intellectual sanity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OBVIOUS CONCLUSIONS | 5/11/1926 | See Source »

Irving Berlin once worked as a waiter in Nigger Mike's, an East Manhattan saloon. His talent was schooled by the clink and shuffle of a nickelodeon. Critics have often pointed meaningly to this fact saying that a man who could emerge from such a background with an equipment as fine as Mr. Berlin's?lacking perhaps the sophistication of George Gershwin, the light-foot fantasy of Jerome Kern, but authentic and interesting nevertheless?must be indeed a genius. So the phrase"Words and Music by Irving Berlin" has come to mean certain things to the U. S. public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Last Song | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

...What do lawyers mean by "Special Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiz: May 10, 1926 | 5/10/1926 | See Source »

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