Word: meriting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signs of Spring. Work was piled on his desk. He left it long enough to award Medals for Merit for wartime services to the F.B.I.'s stocky J. Edgar Hoover, the ODT's leathery John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, the Association of American Railroads' President John Jeremiah Pelley...
...lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. ... It has a hundred fine names-Achilles' wrath and Coriolanus' grandeur, Revenge and Injured Merit and Self-Respect and Tragic Greatness and Proper Pride...
...Wolcott Gibbs, whose review had not yet appeared. Said he: "I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which has no merit whatsoever...
...broadcasters and performers are much more concerned with the size of the audience than with the quality of the show. Said Gould: "The rating ... has been exaggerated to such an extreme that broadcasting has come to operate on a meretricious set of values. Whether a program has any intrinsic merit of its own is no longer the prime question...
...reporters and the ex-Ambassador arose. The Secretary opened the case, took out a decoration-the Medal for Merit-and pinned it on Harriman's coat...