Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consented to marry him. But she could not understand why he employed Lum Morgan. Chad, once deputy sheriff, had jailed Lum's son. Lum had recently shot at Chad, mistaking him for a rabbit. Clayton found Lum useful around the mines, continued to employ him. Lum thought that this meant that Clayton wanted him to take another shot at Chad, mistake him for a barn door...
...time by the way. From Serena's children (a not very attractive crowd), from Serena herself. Redfield gradually came to the terrible conclusion that she was just a scheming, selfish, salacious old wench. The End of Desire, Author Herrick's 23rd pedestrian book, is serious, well-meant, may point out to middle-aged adolescents some pitfalls of the dangerous age but will not advance the cause of U. S. letters very much...
...said that ... he had been to the commissioner's office and also 'uptown' [14th Street] twice. Mr. Hickin insisted he had been told 'uptown' that 'everything was O. K.' " By "uptown" and "14th Street" the N. G. L. lawyer said he meant Tammany Hall, whose null was then on 14th Street between Third Avenue and Irving Place. He further declared that he considered N. G. L. comparatively lucky, that he had feared "a further squeeze" of $250,000. He added that North German Lloyd berthed her ships all over the world but "never...
...courthouse, sealed it with the Double Eagle of Imperial Russia and lodged their prisoner in a Finnish jail whence he would be deported to Siberia. Indomitable Mrs. Svinhufvud took in boarders while her husband languished in Siberian exile, visited him every winter by permission of the Tsarist Government-which meant a freezing journey of some 2,000 miles, much of it by sleigh...
...could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...