Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From any but the Coolidge lips these sentences might have fallen cynically. In themselves they mean nothing. But in their context they were warm praise from a cautious...
...suffer from alcoholic poisoning"--like "to be hanged by the neck until dead", the phrase has an ominous connotation. The sufferer may be blissfully unconscious of his pain. He may shout joyfully--he may even sing; but these external manifestations of an inward laceration mean nothing. No lady will look upon him other than as on one whose punishment is that of the damned and whose torture knows no alleviation. And so, as the damsel said, "He may be boiled to you but to me he's an unfortunate victim of alcoholic poisoning...
TIME was like an apple pie when J first subscribed. Now it is like a mince pie; and so I am asking you in this letter to cancel my subscription. Do you understand what I mean...
...morning. The best lecture on today's list, judging from the titles, is Professor Howard's talk on Goethe on Shakespeare", to be given in Widener B in German 7. Goethe is considered the greatest of German poets, while Shakespeare's own position in English literature is hardly a mean one. But little stretching of the imagination is necessary to call these poets the two highest in world literature. To hear what the one has to say of the other could hardly be uninteresting...
...overact, to keep moving constantly, thus detracting from my own effectiveness as well as that of others. This overacting, as compared with the repressed playing which is necesary in the usual modern stage productions, charactizes the differences between amateur and professional work. By this, however, I do not mean to cast a slur on college training, for I can say without reservations that any position I may hold in dramatic circles is due to my work under Professor I. L. Winter '86. For training in acting, voice technique, public speaking, and interpretation of literature, he is unrivaled...