Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John M. Davis accumulated a half million dollars and a long white beard. He also developed a turned-down nose, a turned-down mouth and a suspicious and belligerent eye. John M. Davis had a problem and he wrestled with it morning, noon & night. The effort gave him a mean look...
...Berlin a shopkeeper said to an American woman: "I suppose you're packing now." "Why?" she asked. Said the shopkeeper: "You mean to tell me that you don't realize the consequences of Moscow's failure? Why, any day now it will happen and you'll have to leave as fast...
Flatus Vocis. The most talkative non-Arab delegate was India's florid Asaf Ali. "When we talk about Jews," he said, "what Jews do we mean? . . . You will perhaps be surprised [the Assembly was] to hear that there are a large number of people living ... on our [northwestern] borders, who claim descent from Israel . . . something like, I should think, between 20 to 30 million people." Said tired Assembly President Dr. Oswaldo Aranha at last: "I am sure the eminent jurist who is the Indian representative knows what I mean when I refer to flatus vocis, which scholars use when...
...Valera:"...! deny absolutely that I used the word. ... I used a couple of words from Homer which mean 'the resounding...
Next day the Government organ, The Irish Press, learnedly explained: "The Greek words used by Mr. de Valera were poluphloisboio thalasses. They mean 'of the loud, resounding sea,' and are from Homer's Iliad, Book One, line...