Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could hardly expect better enforcement in Wet states. Many a Wet wondered whether this policy, if it was a policy, would be extended to its logical conclusion of letting Wet states stay Wet. Although the Justice Department shied away from formulating any specific division of enforcement responsibilities, it apparently meant to confine its activities to interstate liquor shipments and large illicit plants, leaving states to deal with petty leggers and the Treasury to cope with alcohol diversion (under Commissioner Doran) and smuggling (under the Coast Guard and Customs service...
...Holland presented to him, is but one of many means of great revenue that he gave outright to the work. Another loss of his was in his dissolution of the Order of the Star, because a spiritual or theologic organization conflicted with his contention that walls stopped progress and meant decay. A modern Socrates, he but asks that the world stand out of his sunshine. Krishnamurti is poor...
...operas were included in the programs, became increasingly popular. Important members of the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies were engaged. They liked to be invited to Ravinia. Last autumn Bori received a cable asking her to sing this spring at London's Covent Garden. To accept would have meant deserting Ravinia. Her answer was: "I go to Louis...
...Robesons like London, have decided to live there permanently, have taken a house on Hampstead Heath. Fortnight ago U. S. radio-listeners heard Actor Robeson broadcast from London a talk on "How It Feels for an American Negro to Play Othello to an English Audience." Said he: Shakespeare meant Othello to be a "blackamoor;" without the difference in race between Othello and Desdemona the jealousy theme is implausible, the tragedy falls to pieces. Robeson hopes to play Othello in the U. S., thinks he will have the chance next fall. Last month he had another reminder...
...spoke Mr. Ochs, who expanded from the Times of Chattanooga to the Times of New York in 1896, who knew that decency meant dollars, that good morals were also good business, that a journal did not need to be yellow to be profitable. Famed is Mr. Ochs's rebuke to an advertiser who thought that the paper's business department should influence its editorial department: "You seem to wish that the New York Times should go about as a mendicant, begging for advertising patronage. We will never do anything of the kind...