Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinction unfortunately is not admitted to polite company. Even men of the same tongue are apt to got into difficulties, as Americans in England have discovered with such words as "bloody" and others that appear equally innocent. Lord Robert Cecil, when he was being entertained in a Boston club, meant only courteous approval when he remarked "What a homely room you have here!" and he found it difficult to understand the coolness of his hosts during the rest of the evening...
...espoused the Open Shop; the week before he issued a manifesto against the Charles Garland Fund for being devoted to radical causes; the week before that he warned the public that labor banks were no solution of the Labor problem and that Capitalists needn't think the banks meant the abrogation of the right to strike. This week he is speaking on a familiar theme. For the eighth or ninth time he delivered his famous philippic against Soviet Russia at the National Civic Federation Convention. He has given it at every Labor Convention since the one at Atlantic City...
ILLINOIS: A bill passed the state Senate to make the " American " language the official language of Illinois. Said Senator Barbour of Chicago, one of three men who voted against the bill: "I, for my part, do not know what is meant by 'the American language.'" It was argued that H. L. Mencken, stormy petrel of American criticism, has written a learned book on the subject. " The American nation should have a language of its own and have it so designated...
About Lloyd George. "He told me that he was to address the Bankers at their Annual Dinner that evening, and that he intended to make it clear that if Germany meant war, she would find Britain against her. . . .Hotfoot on our track came a messenger. Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer go at once to Sir Edward Grey? Mr. Lloyd George stopped abruptly and turning to me said: ' That's my speech. The Germans may demand my resignation as they did Delcass?...
...deem the decline in prestige of Italian music and musicians. They say that the traditional great demand the world over for Italian singers and instrumentalists and Italian operas is diminishing. This is a matter of something more than mere national pride in Italy. For the Italians music has always meant a very fine profession. A great many musicians have regular and well-paid employment in Italy and a great many more find posts in other countries. The Italians have supplied musicians for a large part of the world...