Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defining a general policy. It does not mean that our Government is to part with one iota of its national resources without complete protection to the public interest. I have already stated that where the Government is engaged in public works for purposes of flood control, of navigation, of irrigation, of scientific research or national defense, or in pioneering a new art, it will at times necessarily produce power or commodities as a byproduct. But they must be a by-product of the major purpose, not the major purpose itself...
...tickled my wrinkled old wattles so in ten year!" Old John comes from the "Coolidge Country" in Vermont and he tells me that the expression "tickling one's wattles" is used by one of the most distinguished men born in those parts. By "wattles" it seems that they mean the skinny, baggy fore part of a typical Vermonter's throat. I like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge...
Blank Check Sirs: ... I want the original of that cartoon. Here is a blank check. Make it out for whatever amount you like (up to $50). I mean to have that original! CHESTER SWOPE Cleveland, Ohio...
...feature of the New England visit?the depression, in the textile industry. Nominee Hoover said he thought textiles had "turned the corner." He also, surprising no one, said: "Any change in the present policy of protection would without question result in a flood of foreign textile products which would mean no less than ruin to New England industry, both manufacturers and workmen...
Traditions. What are they? What do they mean? Are they the effete practices that thin-blooded men of degenerate stock use to bolster their sense of defeated pride? Are they outworn customs fit only for academic discussions? Are they part of the life-blood of the Nation? What are they, and are they worth following...