Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kindness and his grace Scattered {or charmed) its ministers to naught. No King, of all our many, has been proved By time so savage to the thrones of kings Nor won more simple triumph over fate. He was most royal among royal things, Most thoughtful for the meanest in his State; The best, the gentlest and the most beloved...
...despite the fact that more Republicans than Democrats have spoken and are scheduled to speak in the future) has given up his claim to consideration as a gentleman and dubbed himself a politician pure and simple. Discontented with impartial treatment, he has reduced himself to the level of the meanest country mud slingers by maligning Columbia publicity because he could not get partial treatment...
Jonathan Swift would blink in wonder to see what the Russians have done to Dr. Gulliver. They have taken all the trenchant satire of that colossus among midgets, and they have revamped it to demonstrate that the organized crime called capitalism is the meanest, most contemptible, most ridiculous abuse known...
Abide With Me (by Clare Boothe Brokaw; Malcolm L. Pearson, Donald E. Baruch, A. H. Woods, producers). Up to last week the meanest, man to walk a Broadway stage in a decade was Stanley Vance, central character of The Dark Tower (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933). Vance, a homosexual sadist, kept white mice in his bedroom, cowed a family living in one of Manhattan's fine old gloomy mansions, finally sent his poor wife into a trance...
...against the conflict to 11-to-1. The two kingdoms were in dickering contact at Geneva (see p. 17). But in Rome cautious Dictator Mussolini figured on a "possible double cross" by Britain, France or both. Steaming up Italians to fury at sanctions as the "vilest and meanest" of measures, II Duce prepared to meet them after Nov. 18 by suppressing last week all publication of Italian trade and financial statistics, so that League States that wish to chisel on sanctions and trade with Italy anyhow may do so undetected...