Word: means
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debut at the Colonial, however, "Regina" is not receiving the production it deserves. Costumes, set, and potential singing and acting talent are lavisbly present. Jane Fickens has a good voice and enough unpleasantness for the mean role of Regina, and Brenda Lewis has singing ability and desperation for the unhappy Birdic. The other players seem quite adequate. But Robert Lewis' direction is seriously incpt and gross. Birdie begins too many of her songs lovingly stroking the back of a satin chair. The frollicking little Negro boy is nothing but trite, and Regina's daughter, Alexandra, is far more...
...welfare" has always been a nice sounding word suggestive of kindly old ladies with baskets on their arms--and "state" has remained more or less neutral. But as Humpty Dumpty scornfully said, "When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." And some Congressmen, and some weekly picture magazines, and some candidates for the Senate in the New York special election have been putting these two words together and packing into the result just what meanings they would choose it to mean...
...seems that the "welfare state" would "control every human action from the womb to the tomb." Alice would doubtless remark in a thoughtful tone, "That's a great deal to make two words mean." And Alice being an unusually logical girl would think it odd that the people so alarmed about the government getting all mixed up in other people's business could at the same time be heartily in favor of high tariffs, and subsidies of farm prices, and subsidies of railroads, and subsidies of merchant shipping. Alice, having stayed too long in Wonderland, might not know that...
...question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things...
...Auto-stop" has the advantage of simplifying travel arrangements. Trains and busses mean tickets, and tickets mean the problem of effective communication with the man at the other side of the ticket window, whether he speaks in Cockney or dialect French. Travel is supposed to promote international understanding; it seems to be more apt to produce complete international confusion...