Word: enough
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lejeune's friends failed to induce him to seek reappointment. Eight years at a desk were, he thought, enough. He will pass his last 22 months of service in open field duty on Pacific Coast. President Coolidge sent Gen. Neville's name to the Senate for confirmation as of March...
...Barnett took her Indian to Holly-wood and they moved into a $50,000 home, as fine as any movie actor's. They lived happily enough, except that the heat some-times bothered the old man and he occasionally pined for his Henryetta neighbors. His wife gave him petty cash to spend...
...note Hardy shies at critics who unanimously pronounce him "gloomy and pessimistic." But the generality is at least excusable, such is the lugubriousness of his humor: item, "The Three Tall Men" of the present volume. In his spare moments a man is making a coffin that shall be long enough for him to be neither bent nor snapped. He finishes a first coffin?it is needed for his tall brother; he finishes a second-for his tall son. He starts a third. Then?...
Quite as gruesome a joke was nearly played on the poet himself?at his birth ie was tossed aside as dead, till the midwife exclaimed to the surgeon: "Dead! Stop a minute: he's alive enough, sure!" Live enough to play the infant Hercules, with the difference that the large snake found one day in his cradle was curled up on the child's chest, comfortably asleep like himself...
Once there were only a few men fools enough to suffer. Then came this Athletics-for-All Policy. Where one man hobbled over the Bridge with his limbs red with Mercurochrome, now there are ten. Where one man went mad learning signals, there are dozens...