Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Smith Week almost not at all. Leaving his brown derby in his hotel room at Biltmore, N. C., he wore a floppy felt hat and continued his golf. He said he had not changed his June plans: "When I said that I would not go to Houston, I meant it." Upon his fellow New Yorkers' action in presenting him to the nation he made no comment. Observers were thoroughly satisfied that he will exert himself to obtain the nomination no more overtly than he did last week in one action and two characteristic utterances...
Paradoxically, not even this last and touching story availed to elect Paul Painleve last week, though he will have another chance at the forthcoming second poll. The fact that the enormous number of 3,712 candidates were seeking election to the scant 612 seats in the Chamber meant inevitably that many strong candidates failed to poll a majority. Among these was famed Louis Lucheur, Finance Minister in 1925, and "the richest man in France...
...loping, shuffling steps, between a run and a walk, used by marathon racers. Ray didn't try to change his style. He stepped out on his toes, pulling up his knees, as if the finish line were a mile away, and it was clear that he meant to hold his pace...
...good play. It is meant to be one of those great sex dramas. You are meant to leave the theatre praying that a little gypsy will visit you in your home, preferably that night. But we failed to notice any patrons of the Plymouth writhing in their chairs. In the first act, a young boy remarks that he likes his women firm, and someone else makes a comment about the gypsy's "bust and hips". That no doubt will be cut by the censors, and except for a spot in the third act where the son of the house...
...Applause was thundering. Miss Bori was bowing. The audience was standing up. Miss Bori tossed one of her bouquets to a woman standing in the second row of the orchestra. The woman caught it gracefully. She, too, bowed. The applause was getting louder and louder. Much of it was meant for the woman in the second row. Her name, as everyone knew, was Geraldine Farrar, 46, onetime darling of the diamond horseshoe...