Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adjective yellow is admittedly loosely used, for the Asiatics are of a variety of hues. The author knows his subject, believes that the real challenge of Asia is concerned with dignity-a "desire that their voices shall count in the world's councils." The races of Asia mean to be respected; and, to ensure this, they aim to increase their material prosperity with the object of strengthening their political power. The white man evidently has the alternative of treating the yellow as an equal or of fighting...
...long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
...worst of it, no doubt, is the publicity involved. To the average person, this might not mean much, but to a moving-picture actress, already much in the public eye, it must be particularly distasteful. Of course, we may be thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
This does not mean that all true men should think alike. Men differ, must differ, and ought to differ; but that does not affect the momentous results of wrong opinions, or the imperative duty of thinking aright. Nor is it any excuse that other people think the same. It is quite as bad, and often worse, to think wrong with the majority as to be in the wrong alone. If truth were so easy to ascertain that all honest-minded people instinctively thought alike the duty to think aright would involve too little effort to need an exhortation. Life...
...that public opinion rules the world, and we often say so carelessly, because by public opinion, we are apt to mean merely the ideas held by ourselves and the little group of people to which we belong. Nevertheless it is true that public opinion does rule. The slave trade was abolished by it, and so later was slavery--although in this case not without a struggle. Taking the civilized world over, corruption in public life, while not indeed, abolished has been greatly reduced, in the last two hundred years by the force of public opinion; and this has occurred...