Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mean to say," demanded Senator Hastings, ''the Secretary of Agriculture will not be able to control production under this proposal in violation of the Supreme Court decision...
...eyes with suitable agony at the world's injustice. Remembering the success of Les Misèrables, in which Charles Laughton gave a memorable interpretation of a tireless detective, Producer Zanuck inserted a similar character to add to Dr. Mudd's torments at Fort Jefferson: a lean & mean chief warden (John Carradine). A sharp-tongued, suspicious prison doctor was well played by 0. P. Heggie, who died two weeks after his role was finished. The picture is a splendid example of biographical melodrama which should appall its audiences, enrich its producers and remind Hollywood that U. S. history...
...main point must be to make the organization like a Parliament, where a difference of opinion does not mean resignation by a minority, where filibustering is not permitted, and where every man with a political interest may find a place to air his views, exchange ideas, learn parliamentary procedure, and get some practice in public speaking. The practical details, such as committees of investigation with reports; the different forms of meeting, whether with some outside distinguished speaker, or merely in debate form between members; the passing of majority and minority motions; the consideration of college and educational problems as well...
When the hearing adjourned they crowded around while friends were wrapping the head of the House of Morgan in his woolen muffler. Why would the destruction of the leisure class mean the end of civilization? Who were the leisure class...
...with the Press since he became a Senate witness, "I think that if the housemother has to do all the cooking and all the washing and bring up a family of five children besides, she won't have time to educate the children. ... By the leisure class I mean the families who employ one servant, 25,000,000 or 30,000,000 families...