Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bravery, and the national service which you performed when you and you alone have dared to tell the truth as witnessed in your issue of Sept. 17 when you unreservedly say: "The popular observation is that the Nominee (Al Smith) when seen off duty, often has had, before evening enough drinks to be visibly stimulated thereby." You have given us a full page picture of what the President of the United States ought not to be. Often a sentence or a few words in your articles gives a cartoon, or cinema of a personage or event...
Soon after the wedding, Mr. Willebrandt's lungs necessitated a move to Arizona. Mrs. Willebrandt nursed him and did all the housework. She had vitality enough left over to take a normal school course in Tempe. After his health returned, she left him. She became a school superintendent in Los Angeles and studied law at the University of Southern California. Her reputation grew with her work as Public Defender of Los Angeles-charity advocate for beaten wives and fallen women...
...produced another headdress and the Happy Warrior became Chief Charging Hawk Leading Star Alfred Emanuel Governor Smith, Sachem of St. Tammany's Society. ... He played checkers with an Irishman in the Veterans' Hospital near Fort Snelling, Minn. He won. . . . He complained: "I can't fight hard enough! I want to fight but how can I fight when my opponent [Nominee Hoover] won't fight?" ... It was also the week of that classic political utterance: "Nothing embarrasses me!" . . . Louis W. Hill, Board Chairman of the Great Northern Railroad and son of its founder, the late, great James...
Favorites seldom finish in golf tournaments. There are too many chances for them to lose and 18 holes are not enough to inevitably determine superiority. But, at Hot Springs last week, there were six onetime champions in the medal play and several more future champions. One of these many favorites, it was safe to say, would win the finals. Such proved to be the case when Virginia Van Wie, who uses a mashie better than any other woman golfer, came up against Glenna Collett in the last round...
...miles an hour. Soon the thermometer registered 57° below zero and instruments ceased to work at all. Finally the oxygen line to Capt. Stevens' breathing cap froze and his head nodded forward. When Lieut. Doolittle struck him a stinging blow in the face he recovered just long enough to see his assailant fall forward exhausted by the exertion this effort had cost him at such an altitude. Out of control, the plane dived thousands of feet into the oxygen-laden air below, where both made a timely recovery, landed the plane, delivered the photographs...