Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young (Universal). The best the class prophets could do for Wanda Werner (Virginia Bruce) of Wendensville, when their forecastings were made public at the commencement dance in the high-school gym, was that she would win the prize at the State fair for the biggest pumpkin. They did not mean to be unkind, but Wanda went home crying. She wanted no fame as a pumpkin grower, dreamed of singing opera...
...Kansas City, at their second annual convention and dance the local chapter of the Missouri State Liquor Dealers' Association strictly banned all liquor. Explained Business Manager M. E. O'Connell: "We are trying to educate the public ... I mean, we want to show we are not a bunch of rumheads and boozers...
...much the story of a particular family as it is the story of how time passes-or seems to pass; recurs-or seems to recur. In Virginia Woolf's plotless pattern there seems to be an inkling, a suggestion, a flash, of what time may mean. The effectiveness of her method, which she has been evolving for 15 years, is that it gives the reader this feeling of being abroad in space and time. The sense of time elapsing which the discontinuous "action" of the story gives is further deepened whenever the clock strikes and the years move...
...professional hockey, the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, battered silver trophy that has been the game's No. i prize since 1894, mean what the World Series means to professional baseball. The difference is that the playoffs achieve their point much less directly. If the Stanley Cup were awarded to the winner of the series between the two teams that led their respective divisions of the National Hockey League, the maximum number of games in the playoffs would be five. What happens instead is that all but the two worst of the league's eight teams engage...
...Diane's mind, there was never any doubt about what was happening and why. Knowing Chico gave her the courage to walk across the catwalk from his room to his neighbor, Street-washer Gobin, and, later, to chase her mean sister (Gale Sondergaard) downstairs. It gave her the courage also, when she got news of Chico's death, not to believe it. After the Armistice was signed, Diane put the onion soup on the stove early to have it ready when he got back. At supper time, Chico was there...