Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What do you mean by Swaraj ?" he was asked...
Perhaps they reveal even more than she intended. The book teems with tales of intrigue, art and heart-rivalry, even jealousy. Certainly the authoress has no mean opinion of her own accomplishments. "I insisted upon singing the Mad Scene," she writes, "in which I amazed the critics, and astonished some of my warmest admirers." And again: "I am a greater artist for what that Winter brought me. Probably my experience helped me to sound the note of passion in my various interpretations, made me more the dramatic singer...
...first letter, concerning the "14 Karat Messiabs" will undoubtedly amuse the children. It does not, certainly, add anything other than a touch of color to the very sincere and serious discussion of the undergraduates, who believe that "Life is real, life is earnest" and mean to start here and now on the thorny path which leads not, perhaps, to martyrdom, but possibly to a much more desirable...
...last I have read a story of modern society life that is not actually coarse with the grewsome details of an illicit love; at last I have found an author who, with all the opportunity in the world, refuses to revel in blasphemy and obscenity. This does not mean that "The Gay Ones" is fit for wide distribution among the Sunday schools of the country--for there is illicit love, and a dear innocent little girl is born of necessarily bad parents, but it is all told in a "nice" way, with a great deal left to the imagination...
...disarm, other nations will not disarm either. They are arming in self-defence as we are. And another war will be inevitable, a war which will mean complete disaster...