Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...certainly got a laugh when you called the new German Ambassador to Washington a "fair" tennis player (TIME, Nov. 14). If you mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this...
...been said of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 62, present and 17th Earl of Derby, that he could no more do a mean action than stoop to flatter a fool. In that apothegm is the key to the understanding of his character. A big, burly, slightly flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there...
Despite these flag-wagging furores, L'Impero, one of the many organs of the Fascist Party, declared that "the calm reigning in Italy, despite Jugoslav provocations, does not mean that we are not indignant. It means that we disciplinarily obey Government orders...
There is a college president who will get fired if his institution loses its objective game of the football season, and a football team which plays because a woman's eyes are bright, and a Palm-olive halfback who wears an assumed name and a mean look and recovers a jumble and makes a touchdown, and saves the game, and the woman, while the audience holds everything in suspense...
...Saturday afternoon another Harvard team met another Yale defeat. To the general public the fact will probably mean just that: another lost game for Harvard, and one more instance of its gridiron decline. To all Harvard men, however,--and to all Yale men who were in the Stadium that afternoon--it will mean much more; it will mean that another Harvard team lived up to the fighting standards of previous Harvard teams, refusing to be influenced by predicted scores and ceasing to play the game only at the final whistle...