Word: meant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME took Mr. Maynard's purely joking remark as it was meant, intended no slight to Mr. Patterson...
...concerns the persecution of Jewish Dr. Mamlock, it is pointed at a greater purpose than racial equality. Behind almost every incident lies calculated Communist propaganda. Dr. Mamlock's removal from his clinic and his brutal treatment are minor themes which bind together a bitter denunciation of Nazi methods. Definitely meant for foreign consumption and as a guide to Communist technique, the picture is aimed to destroy the theory that Communists set the Reichstag fire and opposed the welfare of Germany. The moviegoer should note these pointed thrusts of propaganda, but pay greater attention to the artistic merits of the picture...
About 5:30 p.m. a noisy, excited throng churned into St. Peter's Square in front of the Vatican. What brought the crowd running now was news of a second sfumata. This one, through some mischance, had been first white, then black. But the white smoke meant that there had been an election. The crowd heaved forward as an enormous cloth, bearing the arms of the papacy, was suspended from St. Peter's balcony. Above it appeared a violet-clad form-Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni. Dean of Cardinal Deacons. Into a microphone which carried his words to loudspeakers...
Back in Cannes, Dancer Daniels blurbed: "Herr Hitler spoke to me in German, and I don't know what the word for it is but a translator said he said I had marvelous movements of the body and legs, and I guess that meant flexes. He said, 'You are the best dancer I have ever seen...
...stock prices morning after the appeasement speech-indicating that Wall Street at least was impressed. So was business generally. Although the New York Sun indulged in a Tory sniff ("Honeyed words, meaning little"), most press and business comments took the charitable point of view that Secretary Hopkins really meant what he said...