Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protestant you mean disowning papal obedience; sharing the movement for freedom, education and individual development; public worship in English; the open Bible, we are Protestant. If you mean anti-Catholic, especially in the spirit of the sheet and hood, every man to choose his own church, a complete break with the past, the dilemma between fundamentalism and modernism-if you mean by Protestant what most Protestants seem to mean, we are not Protestant and God. forbid we ever should...
Bellard, in The Woman, meant to be a financier. One day "he was torn by the look of a house on whose mean little porch near the street sat a shabby old man of 60, without a coat and reading a newspaper. The man's fate seemed terrible. . . . But the man looked up, and smiled at Bellard as brightly as if he himself had been young." Bellard, the ambitious Bellard, never becomes a financier but he finds happiness because he loves a woman. So when his children rail at his failure, he goes out on the porch of his scrubby...
...failure of the University forward passing attack, counted upon to counteract the strong defense of the Red and Blue line, will mean that Coach Arnold Horween '20 and his assistants will probably spend some time this week developing and polishing off the Crimson aerial game. At Philadelphia the line did not hold long enough the passer was generally hurried, and the possible receivers were covered by watchful Quakers...
...hastened to assure the President that I had never given the impression I was speaking with his authority. . . . He insisted with some heat that the country would assume that he did not mean what he had said...
...Kennedy Jr. was reported to have cried: "It has been estimated that there are 15,000 blind pigs in Detroit. I think that is about correct. Each one of those pigs has at least ten regular customers. If the owners will get after those ten customers that alone will mean 150,000 votes for Johnny Smith-enough to put him over...