Word: meant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note savoring of genuine anguish last week, as it reverberated from many an haut parleur.† Said he: "My name, la marque Poiret, has been damaged, my art thwarted, by American women who have not used discretion in buying or copying my creations. . . . Each robe Poiret is meant, need I say it, for one certain type of woman. Mais . . . [with nasal protest] les dames Américaines, what do they do? Alas! Too often an American woman of one kind buys in their shops a Poiret gown which is not for her. . . ." Many who listened sympathized; but wondered at what...
...TIME meant no offense. The item in question was a report of a speech which Clarence Darrow delivered to Philadelphia Negroes...
...window with a heavy hammer. Instantly a crowd of hundreds assembled, with a great uproar of shouting, thinking it was the deed of an anarchist. I ran away, to avoid violence. But the jeweler, a fleet-footed young man, ran after me and overtook me. I assumed that he meant to arrest me. But instead, he pressed into my hand a list of his other shops, saying, 'Go and do the same to all of them! It will be a splendid free advertisement...
...last week one Ray Doll, Chicago junk dealer, went so far as to fire a shotgun when he saw an eye peeking and peering at him through a knothole in his garage. The shotgun shell sped straight, blew out the brains of one Robert Hailey, 15, Negro, who meant no harm...
...with intense 'tactile value,' the whole figure having the tension of a steel spring strained to the limit. The very extensive landscape which is dominated by the winding river, represents a view of the Arno valley closed in by high mountains. The city in the middle distance is evidently meant to represent Florence, and some of the characteristic buildings, like the Duomo and the Campanile, are perfectly distinguishable. The landscape has a drark brownish tone, in which the river appears as a light winding path. The sky is light bluish green...