Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since times have changed, the King-Emperor accepted both these pieces of advice, last week. Mr. McNeill will take office as Governor General late in January. His appointment does not mean that Irishmen are dissatisfied with crusty but beloved Governor General Timothy Healy. It merely happens that "Tim" has vice-regally represented the Crown for the customary period of five years and that the appointment of his successor is a matter of empire "routine...
...many U. S. advertising clubs had already done, the New York Advertising Club last week examined advertisements written by local pastors to explain "What the Church Has to Offer Men." The prize advertisement, written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan: "Without ideals, life is mean- "Without a purpose, it is flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured...
...mean it. How do you expect me to examine your throat...
...from all other ex-service organiza tions in that we still continue to obtain new possible members and are a continuing body. Those last five words, which I have under lined, are of a sinister import. What does the "Junior Vice-Commander" of this organ ization who wrote you mean, if not that the V. of F. W. expect and hope that our country will wage yet another foreign war ? My late husband, the Rev. Jason Parks, was a saintly man devoted to works of peace, and I should not be properly cherishing his mem ory did I not write...
...saluted her. So did the Governors of the 48 states; there were letters from them all, a farewell appreciation for "a lifetime of self-sacrificing service." Mme. Schumann-Heink cried, kissed Walter Damrosch who had presented them, and made a speech: "Now I say goodbye, but that does not mean that I shall become useless. I hope still to continue to serve my country. Heretofore I have given my heart to the soldier boys, but now I must look after the girls-if they behave themselves and don't smoke or powder their noses-for you know...