Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reduction of costs of manufacture," cried President Roosevelt, proclaiming his economic credo to dining Democrats in Manhattan last month, "does not mean more purchasing power and more goods consumed. It means just the opposite" (TIME...
...asking that the League of Nations Covenant be separated from its basis in the Treaty of Versailles. Did Germany intend to repudiate all the remaining sections of that fat document and "any agreement which may be said to have its origin in the treaty of Versailles?" What did he mean by a brand new international court, with what powers? Why had he not included Russia, Latvia and Estonia in his proposed system of non-aggression pacts...
...upon a pursuit of style that made barren his later years." And Moore misunderstood his talent in other ways. He prided himself on his discerning palate. A tricky friend, dining with him in a restaurant, found the soup particularly good but slyly said to Moore: "Do you mean to say you are going to drink that?" Moore tasted it, called the waiter in high dudgeon, made a scene. Once he got in a row with some spinster neighbors who tore up a copy of one of his books, sent the pieces in a parcel to Moore, marked "Too filthy...
...liked the "Smart and Strudy Swiss." In Belgrade a girl passed her carrying a succulent dish. Said Juanita: "where ever you goth I'll flower it smelled so good I flowered Her 2 blocks." When she writes of herself as leaving "in rout'' she does not mean that her unshakable equanimity has been disturbed. ''The French are called the Sweetheart Nation because they kiss and hugh right on the buisy streets. Yet they are perfectly harmless in the house...
...machine in an amusement park (where Bette is escaping from her normal position), in a manner so abrupt as to be calculated to take George's and your breath. The female proposal is standby number one. The next is a business marriage in which the wedded couple don't mean business. Then there are those awful namby-pamby European counts, who are always such a trial to people like movie heiresses and Jiggs' daughter. Actually, if one ever showed up, he would be quite refreshing because of the rarity. Finally, Bette turns out to be an impostor. All this conduces...