Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge, the appointment of Mr. Lowden would remove a possible rival. But this fact is publicly known and such an appointment would bear the stigma of a political move. In White House councils this fact may militate against Mr. Lowden's other qualifications?tact, moderation and no mean amount of classical scholarship, a thing not unvalued by the English. If Mr. Lowden has the choice, will he prefer a home in the American Embassy at No. 4, Grosvenor Gardens, London, or a chance at the white-fronted residence on Pennsylvania Ave., Washington...
Accordingly they rushed to the address and were met by an indignant landlady who announced that she had found the animal a week ago Sunday teasing her cat in the back yard. In the mean time he had torn up a $25 pocketbook, a linoleum rug, and had slept in the puffed rice. The board she said would...
...demands of conductors and trainmen are expected to be followed by wage demands of other railway employees? especially engineers and firemen. It is estimated that during the last six months these men (conductors, trainmen, engineers, firemen) received wages aggregating $394,000,000. A 12% wage increase would mean an annual drain of $80,000,000 or $90,000,000 on the railroads and restore wages to the highest point they reached in 1920. The conductors, trainmen, engineers, firemen have powerful, well organized unions; if they make demands the other less powerful employees may well take part...
This discomfiture might take several forms. It might mean higher freight rates ? which is improbable because of Congressional opposition. It might result in poorer service. Or it might entail loss to the holders of railroad securities. According to the Interstate Commerce Commission there were 777,132 railroad stockholders on Dec. 31, 1922. The bondholders are even more numerous, and include, as has often been pointed out, many savings banks. So actually millions of people are indirect holders of railroad securities...
...describes the quality of which I am speaking. Wallace Irwin has it in his writing, so too have Harold Bell Wright, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens? and the word is guts! You may not like it?but I can think of no other word which so completely expresses what I mean...