Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, good, easy-going Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin rose to conclude the debate with a soft-soapy appeal for TOLERANCE-tolerance of the Book, he appeared to mean. At this crux of debate, the battle of prayers-still raging across the street in Westminster Abbey-reached a climax of Evangelical appeals to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost;* while Anglo-Catholics did not scruple to additionally beseech the Virgin Mary, her mother St. Anne, and many another saint...
Bitterly Duke and Count complained that their honor had been sullied by the Marquis. What did he mean, they asked in effect, by breaking off his engagement with the Senorita Mercedes de Castellanos (TIME, June 18) and giving as his reason her "imprudent and inexplicable" conduct in appearing on the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by the Duke and Count...
...Even with the will I couldn't help comfortably while paying for a winter home in Florida out of income. And by a home in Florida I don't mean a duchy or principality with a kingly villa in the centre, like the Great Khan Teagle's estate, but a few humble acres on the Gulf and a simple cottage with bougainvillea and cocoanut palms and poison ivy around...
...Harvard indifference is that it is not indifference at all, but intense individualism. The curse of it is that it is intolerant individualism. Individualism at its best can be evidence of highly developed democracy; but in Harvard individualism there is little democratic feeling. By democratic feeling I do not mean glad-handing collegiatism and sartorial standardization. Few lament the lack of those things. And it must be admitted that individualism could not exist without a certain amount of tolerance. But for all that we have our intellectual snobs, and our athletic snobs, and our social snobs, and our anti-social...
...haze, they found themselves off Minot's Ledge instead of Marblehead. The anchor on the quarter had caused a deviation of the compass in the cock-pit; a result they had not foreseen. Of course no moral was involved in this case, but it may illustrate what I mean. The compass is to the mariner what conscience is to a man. A deviation involves a wrong course. That is the significance in our text of the eye being single and whole body full of light...