Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with "the biggest Chief of all." The Duke of York signified his "sincere pleasure and grateful thanks" by accepting invitations to become the Honorary President of the Yorktown World Forum,* Yorktown Country Club and the Yorktown Historical Society. The acceptance of these invitations was somehow or other construed to mean that the Duke would visit Yorktown, Va., next year, but this was officially denied in London, although both the Duke and Duchess hoped they would at some future date be able...
Said the Assistant Corporation Counsel : "You know what I mean, that hootchy-kootchy sort of intonation...
...mean (cf. Julius Caesar, Act I, Sc. II) that "the rabblement hooted and clapped their chapped hands and threw up their sweaty nightcaps, and uttered such a deal of stinking breath" that it had almost choked the speaker...
...postponement did not mean abandonment of Mr. Andrews' program. He has two eager allies in the persons of William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, assistant to the Attorney General, and Mrs. Willebrandt. The three are substantially one in purpose. It is supposed to have been Mr. Donovan, a former Army officer of the same type as Mr. Andrews, who induced Mr. Andrews to give up a lucrative civil job for a thankless political...
...expire Apr. 1, 1927. On this same date, the wage contract in the bituminous coal fields expires, raising the prospect of a joint strike of both hard-and soft-coal producers. This prospect is not without advantages to both operators and miners. To the anthracite operators, it would mean a strike without the prospect of losing any of their market by the public's taking to soft coal as a substitute. To the miners, it would mean a chance to obtain a wage increase, since all coal prices would soar tremendously, and there would be prospect of such large...