Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mayor chooses to run again. Last week, Milwaukee rejoiced when Daniel Webster Hoan, who emerged as city attorney in Milwaukee's Socialist landslide of 1910 and rose from that office to the mayoralty in 1916 despite the combined efforts of Republicans and Democrats,* declared that "to quit [now] would mean to unsettle conditions and to disrupt a well organized municipal service which required twelve years of effort to build...
...doesn't start any rough stuff, I won't bother him." Rumor said that Capone would buy a Miami night club. Capone said: "I've been hounded and pushed around. . . . I'm orderly." Sunshine seekers wondered if Capone's presence in Miami would mean machine gun fights or bigger, better bootlegging...
Does this mean that they are unfit to occupy university posts? Not in the least. The greater part of the teaching and lecturing which they are supposed to do need not be done at all. These gentlemen who cannot give bright lectures are most of them capable of doing much better things...
This does not mean, except literally, that the art of punctuation has gone into its dotage. It is similar to the Victorian's excessive and indiscriminate use of the dash, especially in letters which amuse when exhumed by biographers. And as one lapses into the more familiar denotation, it is easy to sce how this new usage follows in the tradition of moving pictures and illustrated papers, in lifting from the people the burden of thought. The comma brings the reader to a sharp pause, and a consideration of the ground covered, but these other tracks flow gently on through...
...should be added that, as far as we can fell, the recent encyclical has not been issued "ex cathedra" and hence is not to be regarded as "infallible," which means that there is nothing to prevent the revision of its chief positions in the future. Moreover, just as in the years following 1864 leading Romanists assured the world that the Syllabus taken at its face value was misleading and that the pope did not really mean what the seems to say, so it may be that some further interpretation of the recent letter will appear which will give...