Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that on each of six occasions during this period when R. B. Mellon bought bank stocks, the amount of his expenditure was credited to him on Brother Andrew's books. When he sold bank stocks his receipts were debited on the account. To Government counsel that meant just one thing: Andrew Mellon, while Secretary of the Treasury, was trading in bank stocks under his brother's name...
More than 50 years ago Professor Kittredge started on his career of inspiring his students, of inculcating in them a reverence for the truth. For over 30 years the caste of these he instructed as to what Shakespeare really meant has been increasing in numbers...
...wave transmitter just powerful enough to flash buzz signals to a telegraph operator upstairs in the courthouse. Locked in his tiny room in the cupola, at 10:29 p. m. the operator heard four sharp buzzes in his earphones, leaped to his key. By A. P. code, four buzzes meant "Guilty-recommendation mercy-life imprisonment." Over the A. P. wires to 1.200 member newspapers and to Press-Radio bureau for broadcast went the flash...
Even when the foreman uttered the words that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony...
...enjoy herself at night clubs but rarely rollicked. Other youngsters twitted her as "the good little Duke girl." She avoided theatrical first-nights, rarely wore jewelry, occasionally affected smoked glasses in public, dodged cameras but would yield to a news-photographer's plea that a good picture meant a bonus...