Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...information, would like to know if you didn't mean "Moros" instead of Morons...
...National Committee, who betrayed her ignorance of the ineffable mysteries of national politics by declaring: "If I were writing the Democratic platform for 1928 there wouldn't be any. I would issue a short statement, brief and to the point, that platforms are out of style; either they mean something and are a target or they mean nothing and are a camouflage; in the one case dangerous and in the other case dishonest. Besides, they're boresome; they take up time in campaign speeches that ought to be given to electing the nominees...
...known that William Randolph Hearst was planning to sell three of his gumchewer sheetlets-the Mirror (New York), Advertiser (Boston) and American (Baltimore)-to Mr. Moore. Perhaps Mr. Hearst helped persuade President Coolidge to please his customer. If Publisher Hearst has such influence with President Coolidge, it may well mean that the latter's disinclination to another nomination is decreasingly adamant...
Police Chief Gerk of Baltimore protested that such figures "mean nothing." He said: "A couple of weeks ago we arrested a man who admitted committing 100 burglaries. His pal admitted 50. Two warrants were issued against each. Therefore, on the record, it would appear that 98 burglaries were unsolved in the case of the first man and 48 in the case of the second...
Next day, two leading Viennese newspapers sounded the irrepressible retort of small Austria. The conservative Neues Wiener Tageblatt rapped: "The arguments of Il Duce are the arguments of the strong, but not strong arguments." The liberal Neue Freie Presse exclaimed rhetorically: "Your words, Signor Mussolini, can only mean that you consider yourself strong and us weak. . . . Then why refuse us the only right which the weak have-namely, the right to complain...