Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russian Bolsheviks is: Russki muzhik vsyo zuplatit-the Russian peasant will pay for everything. Last week it looked as if workers and peasants both were going to pay as the Kremlin cracked down on labor, banned all party, trade union and social meetings during the workday, frankly stated it meant to get less "chatter" and more work out of workers. Thus ended one more visible manifestation of Russian proletarianism...
...countless reliable friends-politicians, newspapermen, informants-who are more than willing to pump him full of biographical detail, information, gossip, anecdotes, wherever he goes. A crack journalist, he is indefatigable in collecting facts, tireless in hunting out the small details. His workmanlike book is exactly what it was meant to be-a handy, popular, political guidebook of a strife-torn continent...
...A.S.H. after his name meant "Author of Southern Harmony" - a collection of hymns, set to folk tunes, which he published in 1835. Southern Harmony sold 600,000 copies in 25 years, was so popular before the War between the States that even groceries and general stores stocked it. In his arrangements for part-singing, Walker, like other rural teachers of the time, used queer "shape-notes" (square, triangular, diamond, round) which were supposed to make music easier to read. Southern Harmony contained a treatise on the rudiments of music, and such observations on singing as: "All affectation should be banished...
...limerick lovers the name Edward Lear has long (and incorrectly) meant the inventor of the limerick. To painters it has meant a third-rate landscapist of the second-rate British school. But when grandfather was a little boy, Edward Lear meant a big fat Book of Nonsense with a gilt cat bowing a bull fiddle on the cover. Inside were such "queery Leary" drawings and poems as the Owl and the Pussy-Cat,† The Moppsikon Floppsikon Bear, The Dong with the Luminous Nose. Last week Author Angus Davidson took this nonsensical Englishman seriously enough to publish his first biography...
...Explaining to businessmen that he had meant no offense in criticizing the university for spending money to teach Gaelic) I'm for the Irish, God bless them. They should have all the education they need...