Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Stimson also recalled that Mr. Barlow once threatened to "bust on the nose" his predecessor, Frank Billings Kellogg, because that old gentleman did not seem interested enough in his case...
Three hundred thousand square miles is a lot of land. It is six times the size of New York State. It is bigger than Texas, Chile or Turkey. It is almost half the size of Mexico. It comprises 190,000,000 acres, enough for President Hoover to give one acre to every man, woman and child in the U.S. and still have enough left to do a wholesale real estate business. If it were worth $100 per acre-which it is not-its sale would wipe out the national debt. It lies in 16 "public land" States throughout the West...
...This vapid, badly recorded cabaret revue, introduced without scintillation by Donald Ogden Stewart and composed of flash shots of famous entertainers, of the washroom and a coatrack, has no apparent connection with the story by Katherine Brush from which it is supposed to be taken. To make it long enough for a feature, Director Robert Florey photographed and recorded an audience ceaselessly clapping hands. Worst sound: the henlike cackling of women in the lavabo. The Gamblers (Warner). This picture is a ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor realism...
...fully appreciate the gravity of the present situation. Nevertheless I think it is a mistake to conclude that civil war will result from the recent clashes. . . . The Government is strong enough to prevent what the people are fearing from occurring...
...entirely satisfying was victory to Editor Older. The jury disagreed on Grafter Calhouri and his case was dismissed. Mayor Schmitz was never brought to trial. Only Abraham Ruef was convicted, sent to San Quentin for 14 years. Peculiarly enough, the sentence of Ruef was more sorrowful to Editor Older than his failure to convict the others. Always an intense reader, he became at about this time a Tolstoyan humanist. He started writing fiercely uplifting editorials asking for-and obtaining-Ruef's parole. Explaining it, he says...