Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only 999,830 stayed at home, and a minute 148,064 balloted to reject the solid Fascist slate of 400 hand-picked candidates for the Chamber of Deputies?the only candidates allowed to run. Rejection of the slate? which no one for a moment believed remotely possible?would have meant simply the holding of a new election. Statistics often lie, but last week's election statistics prove that those Italians who went to the polls are 98 28/100% pure endorsers of the Duce?a record eclipsed in the U. S. only by Ivory Soap, 99 44/100% pure...
...Washington, the senatorial sire of the Five & Ten Act, doubtless never gave a thought to the publicity he would come in for. But last week he made it clear he resented joining Mr. Volstead's category. Emphatically he protested: "There is no Jones law!" By this he meant, hairsplitting, that his measure, increasing prohibition penalties to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine, was merely an amendment to the Volstead Act and should therefore be anonymous...
...Miss Bertha St. Clair Mason, 48, charged by Mr. Snowden with attempting to blackmail him. "I will break you politically and socially," threatened one of Spinster Mason's letters, "because you betrayed me 20 years ago." Under cross-examination she admitted writing the letters, but said they were meant for another Mr. Snowden. "It's just one of those cases of mistaken identity. I'm awfully sorry...
...interpreted to cover any question under the sun, and both European and South American statesmen are never tired of pointing out that there is no way of telling who is to impart or withhold "the consent of the United States." Is it the Senate's consent that is meant, or the President's or what? Reservation V is thus not only arrogant but obscure, and therefore the League and Court States refused (1926) to accept the adherence of the U.S. on such terms ?much as they want to welcome the U.S. into the World Court, which is the judicial...
Indiscretion. There has not been anything quite like this one on Broadway since the last horsecar. Myron C. Fagan, who wrote it, either is kidding the public or he is kidding himself. If he meant it seriously, it's terrible. If he dashed it off with his tongue in his cheek it's very good. There hasn't been so much plot in one place since East Lynne. It all begins in Venice with a clandestine love affair. Then comes the villain to take the hero back to his dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal...