Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Santa Monica! The most beautiful, the most desirable in all the whole wide world in which to live and to enjoy life in all its fullness, as it is meant for each human to do; where our folk go down the rose-strewn path of life hand in hand, facing the eternal sunset with a prayer of gratefulness to God on their lips for having made such a heaven on earth as Santa Monica...
...Editors at the White House. There was exciting, off-the-record talks by Harry Hopkins and John Edgar Hoover and, when his turn came, the President told his charmed audience that he wished the nation's news could be presented without "color."* And by "color" Mr. Roosevelt clearly meant the frank unfriendliness to be found in the writings of the three journalisits who have earned his personal displeasure...
Without comment Frank Kent continued to criticize whatever he disapproved in the Roosevelt regime. Venerable Mark Sullivan took oblique notice of the controversy when he placidly explained : 'Congress is meant by the Constitution to be a 'noman' to the Executive. . . . The Democratic leaders within Congress . . . renounced that role in the early weeks of the Administration. ... In the lack of any other satisfactory 'noman' . . . the Press has this obligation to an exceptional degree...
...dialogue is effectively simple. There is little originality, and such familiar episodes as the avowal by the lovers that fate has meant them for each other, appear in this play. But they are handled, by playwrights and players, with a vitalizing skill. Neither is there much outright humor. The comic relief consists mainly in the mundane or drunken suties of Mr. Killiam and the unaccountable tricks of the man who works the lights. Thus all contributes to the winningly unpretentious impression that "The Wind and the Rain" imparts...
...fact that during exam weeks he ordinarily lost ten pounds and annexed a few grey hairs. It is the same with college grads in a studio conference. Confessing no serious intent, they strive to put as much entertaining frivolity as possible in the scenario-dramatizing college life never was meant to be a sad task...