Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this boy, poor but honest, or just pretty poor. If so, how poor...
...President Coolidge told how much more the U. S. meant to him than a geographical location. ". . . At present our land is the abiding place of peace, universal freedom and undoubted loyalty, holding the regard of all the world as a mighty power, stable, secure, respected. The people are prosperous, the standards of social justice were never so high, the rights of the individual never so extensively protected. . . . No one would claim that our country is perfect. . . . Yet . . . a nation, which has raised itself from a struggling dependency to a leading power in the world, without oppressing its own people...
Captain Noel has given us the whole story as he saw it, and then shows why and how Everest may be conquered in the near future. This book is not technical; rather it is meant for public interest, and above all it justifies the spirit of men who accept the challenge which to others may seem foolish...
Whether Harvard men really are wet or not I cannot venture to say because I have never been able to find out what the word meant. The legendary Harvard man is rather "moist" (a belittling term), but that is because the originators of the numerous stories had good imaginations. Actually he seems to know quite a little about life a considerable amount to be candid. Whether he is right or not is nobody's concern. If song and story were infallible estimations of Harvard mentality, the chances are that he would be a trifle mistaken. And at this point...
...sidewalks accompanied by the raucous tunes of a hurdy-gurdy. Later (in 1922) she was featured in the first all-Negro musical comedy, Shuffle Along. Her last triumph was Florence Mills & Her Blackbirds (London, 1927). Said she before death: "I've not begun to be what I was meant to be." At the largest funeral ever known to Harlem, she lay in a $10,000 copper coffin. Six hundred chorus voices sang Negro spirituals to the accompaniment of 200 musicians...