Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Imogene meant no wrong. She was simply striving for an honest living. Ziegfeld has blocked her road, because Tinney blacked her eye. The time may come when a chorus girl will be refused honest employment simply because she has married the third or even the second millionaire, or because she has dropped a handbag containing dynamite in a crowded taxi-cab. "What's going to become of us?" conscientious, multimarried chorus girls are asking. And there simply isn't any answer...
Nobody has yet explained in intelligible fashion what normalization means. I will repeat myself, even at the risk, of boring others as much as we are already bored by this subject. If by normalization it is meant that we must go before the Italian people without assuming the mask of false pastors, this we have done and will continue to do. If it is meant that we must punish anyone who breaks our laws, this we are doing and will continue to do. If it is meant that we must repress illegalities, I reply that illegalities are being and will...
...Their numbers grew. The original program of religious contemplation grew, reached out into other fields of human interest - Music, Education, Art, Politics. Each year the object was to make Chautauqua a richer, more color ful, more "improving" experience. As decades passed, "Chautauqua" became a word of many meanings. It meant, as well as the parent gathering and the name of a lake, town and county in New York, a great many similar gatherings in all parts of the country. It meant a kind of rock, of that geologic period known as the Upper Devonian, outcroppings of which are plentiful...
...Eighteenth Amendment is part of the fundamental laws of this country. It was meant to be enforced and so far as our organization is concerned it is going to be enforced to the letter...
...thought we knew fairly well what the expression "reeking with the taint of special privilege" meant, but so long as MR. UNTERMYER contends that we don't know what it means we must content ourselves with saying that it sounded like hell...