Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charged last June that on the day the World War Armistice was signed (Nov. 11, 1918) there was "deliberate and useless waste of human life at [the capture of] Mons [by Canadian troops] for the glorification of the Canadian Headquarters Staff." This and supplemental statements were generally taken to mean that even after General Currie had knowledge of the signing of the Armistice he ordered Canadian troops into an action during which several were killed on Armistice...
After the ousting, Mr. Broun issued a statement concluding: " 'Disloyalty,' unexplained, might mean to the reader anything from robbing the till to sitting on Ralph Pulitzer...
...gets down to 48 seconds, he can't be left out of any dope sheet no matter what the meet may be. Other good men seem to be Engle, a Yale sophomore, and the trio who raced each other last Saturday in the Dartmouth, Colgate, Syracuse meet. I mean Barbuti, of Syracuse. Swope of Dartmouth, and Roll of Colgate. All were in the finals of last year's Intercollegiates and all are fast...
...general terms the results mean that the Prime Minister can now proceed with confidence to take the four great steps in financial policy to which he is pledged: 1) amortization of the floating debt by a large internal loan; 2) ratifications (possibly after renegotiation) of the Franco-U. S. and Franco-British debt settlements; 3) restoration of the franc to a gold basis, probably at the present stabilized rate of 25 francs to one dollar; 4) acceptance from Germany of a (reduced) lump sum in payment of her reparations, this sum to be derived from the sale of the German...
...Times a Bride but Never a Wife." After the tossing, Peggy Joyce and Erskine Gwynne played together in the cabaret and disappeared together at 5 a. m. At 10:30 a. m. Peggy Joyce, preparing to leave Paris, spoke to reporters in an English accent. "Erskine really did not mean it," she giggled, "and I understand how it all happened...