Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less...
...question is," said Alice, '"whether you can make words mean so many different things...
Fortnight ago in Washington, Dr. Townsend announced that the Townsendites would put a complete ticket in the field in 1936, with candidates for President, Vice President and Congress. Last week in Chicago Dr. Townsend pulled his punch on this third party threat by declaring: "This does not necessarily mean that in all States it would be necessary to exercise the third party prerogative. It is our hope that the attitude of one or both of the old political parties shall change toward the Townsend Plan and that their espousal of our cause will make it unnecessary to exercise the rights...
...peace by surrender. If it is to be peace by negotiation, I don't believe myself when the time comes that it will not be found peace will have to be made upon the principles I have stated. ... If it is to be peace by surrender it will mean complete collapse of one or the other of the belligerents. My own view-and I have stated it frankly to the House -is that I believe the end of the war will come by negotiations...
Stark Reality. It was presently evident that, as often happens in the case of honest Stanley Baldwin, he did not mean his words in the sense conveyed by their sound to non-Britons. They implied that the Government, since it stands where it has always stood, had not upon that firm basis turned around. It had thus turned and the turning was the whole point of the Prime Minister's speech, but he had expressed himself like Humpty Dumpty.* A few minutes later, some 500 words further along, he told the House not to put too much trust...