Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tale. The accidental upsetting of a goblet, and the consequent tinkling of broken glass precipitated violent action. In a black thunder-cloud of wrath descended His Majesty harsh words rasped as lightning flared forth; and the much-taken-aback Commander of the Carrot, feeling on a par with the meanest of his spud-skinning scullions slunk with his companion out of the abode of the Mighty with his tall between his legs. That is why Waistootts and He-Men have not recently been found in especial Presidential favor...
Miss Fane's Baby is Stolen is notable for expert work by Alice Brady and by Jack LaRue who plays the smallest, meanest and most jittery of the kidnappers...
...Hays continued by saying that, "the German revolution is the meanest and most mendacious revolution the world has ever seen; mean because it persecuted the people who are not offering resistance to it; mendacious because its whole program is built on lies." Vander Lubbe, the Dutch defendant who confessed to setting the fire, was assisted by Nazis, if assisted...
Dana's years as editor were the years of the nation's lusty westward expansion and of governmental corruption from Washington down to the meanest village. From his famed corner office, piled high with books and newspapers, he fought corruption with brilliant and penetrating satire, lambasted the Tweed Ring, the Credit Mobilier, the Whiskey Ring. When Pennsylvania's corrupt State Treasurer W. H. Kemble wrote a letter to a claim agent in Washington introducing a self-seeking friend, Dana pounced upon the last line in the latter-"He understands addition, division, and silence"-as the platform...
When Bill Woody, familiar "meanest man" of the community, was shot in the sheriff's office, everybody was mighty pleased. Just the same, the Sheriff had to do his duty. He figured out that six different people might have done it, with good reason and full opportunity. Detective-story addicts may hold their breath as the Sheriff does his slow and conscientious bloodhounding, but the cynical reader's faith is justified when everything comes out all right...