Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICAN FAMILY-Faith Baldwin- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Well-meant but uninspired three-generation family novel...
...spinsters, however, crawled into.the junk's hold where they crouched under canvas. Remembering the fate of Missionaries Mr. & Mrs. John C. Stam whom Communists beheaded with a broad sword last month (TIME, Dec. 24), the ladies knew that discovery meant death. A word from the Chinese boatman would do it. The Misses Granner and Renninger crouched below decks for six days, listening, dozing, stretching, thinking about the unclassifiable noises that came from the sacking of the nearby town of Taoyuan. Twice hooves and boots clattered over-head in numbers, for the army had commandeered the junk as part...
Tossing off their last highball, the gay sportsmen mounted the coach and dashed up Fifth Avenue. The entire distance to Newport was covered at a full gallop, Mr. William Goadby Loew tooling the coach most of the way. Horses were changed 21 times, which meant the use of no less than 84 beasts in all. Not since Oliver Gould Jennings (who was also in the party) tooled 406 miles to Shelburne, Vt. in the 1890's had there been such a record-breaking coaching...
...context. 'Um' may mean 'These are good tripe and onions.' 'You smell like a rose,' or 'Waiter, another whisky and soda.' This sort of thing makes it difficult for the foreigner, but the English themselves can tell instantly what is meant by the lack of inflection in the voice and the complete absence of expression on the face." Writing of English millinery they call attention to "the tailored felt, worn en bash over the eyebrows or well back on the head, its slant depending on whether you prefer to have the rain...
...longer on the air. His latest book, characteristically entitled No Swank, is a collection of 17 articles, some of which have been published in various magazines or newspapers. Anderson lovers will want the little book for their library, will take it as kindly as it was meant...