Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while the report was current, officials received applications from ten hardy persons anxious to succeed Mr. Elliott. One man said, "I want to better myself." This man, who meant that he sought to make a better living, had doubtless heard that Executioner Elliott receives $150 per corpse; had perhaps read that Executioner Elliott earned, in a single day in 1927, $900 for giving "jolts" to three Massachusetts convicts in the morning, in the evening three more in New York...
...session revealed the assininity of those who thought that open flaying of any nation was to be openly arrived at. Promptly the Cuban president of the Conference, Judge Antonio de Bustamante of the Hague Court, ruled that despite the "publicity" resolution the ordinary canons of procedure would apply. This meant that any session could be made secret by a two thirds vote of its members. Curiously enough, this ruling seemed to meet with the approval of most Latins. Since sagacious Mr. Hughes had called their outstanding bluff, they were as anxious as he to favor a procedure which would prevent...
...like comedy, especially the type in which I am playing now. It is meant for a small theatre, where the actors can be more intimate with the audience. When a contact of this kind is made, for some reason or the other the play always seems to go off much better...
...Oklahoma, Democrat. It was also another thwack for Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, when the House Naval Affairs Committee voted last week, 15 to 1, to rewrite the Administration's Navy building program. The Committee did not wish to change the volume of the program. It only meant to make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee erased from the bill drafted by Secretary Wilbur a clause giving the President authority to suspend...
...Molnar the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an old, jaded story, and the fleshpot an older. His successive wives have meant much to him, but so have the enormous slumbers and epicurean dinners which he loves. His selfishness is not the mystic ego culture of Count Keyserling but something earthy, practical...