Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay Presidency (77,221 square miles). For Bombay's 8,000 foreigners, mostly located in the city of Bombay (pop. 1,161,383), the law meant liquor rations -seven bottles of whiskey, or 21 bottles of wine, or 63 bottles of beer a month. It meant the closing of the celebrated Taj Mahal Palace Hotel Bar, centre of Bombay's white community, where Britons regularly go for their "sundowners," the neat, half-size whiskey and soda known...
...none but it suits U. S. farm and fish lobbies, because whale oil competes in a small way with domestic oils and fats in soap making. The whalers sponsored an amendment postponing the excise for five years. Last week Congress adjourned without acting on it. To Whaler Isbrandtsen that meant: 1) buying a fleet of killer ships (estimated cost of eight if U. S. built: $3,200,000); or 2) taking a chance that Congress would pass the amendment next session; or 3) disbanding his company and virtually ending the U. S. revival of whaling...
...down on you till yo' feet bog in de wet places." Like the rest, however, Rhoda accepted relief, enjoyed its trimmings. Some of them: a local-talent band which played The Star-Spangled Banner and Tipperary just alike, an open-air performance of Pinafore in thick flannel costumes meant for Alaska, sent to St. Croix by mistake...
Last week as the option deadline lapsed, the four stayed clam-silent. This meant that United might have to pay more for the six DC-4s it bought last fortnight. But it also meant that if President Patterson's hunch is sound, when the DC-4s are operating in 1941, United might bag the lion's share of transcontinental air traffic...
Scarlatti: Eleven Sonatas (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, some of them uncommonly modern for his time (1685-1757), were what the word originally meant, pieces "to be sounded," dances, preludes, fugues, etc. Casadesus plays them fastidiously...