Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceivable that our progressive and essentially moral people will go back to a condition where we will be bone-dry in one State and souse-wet in another, and where churches and schools will elevate one city and gin mills degrade another. States' rights and local option would mean alcohol ad libitum and ad nauseam wherever the whiskey rings held political sway; and that is not a thing to be contemplated in any sort of a sincere temperance program...
Clearly the League could not define a doctrine which U. S. statesmen have so often stretched or shrunk to suit their convenience, since 1823, when it was vaguely stated by U. S. President James Monroe (1817-25). Sometimes the Doctrine is shrunk to mean little more than that the U. S. will attempt to discourage European intermeddling in Latin America. Occasionally it is stretched to cover U. S. intermeddling in Latin America of a sort which Europeans call "frankly imperialistic...
...This does not mean the remotest intention on my part of abandoning civic duties nor retirement from the life of struggle and responsibility which are the lot of every soldier. I know there are plenty of situations in the military, administrative, political, or civic field which I can occupy and which no matter how modest they may seem in comparison with the Presidency I now hold . . . could give me opportunity to discharge my duties as a man of the revolution...
...Sensible folk everywhere will not be influenced by this mean attack upon a great community...
They might mean consolidation of Chicago's two largest banks into a $1,000,000,000 institution, second in size only to the National City Bank (N. Y.). Listed in order of deposits, the new U. S. banking chart might read...