Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thumbed over the State linen, bargained with tradesmen, checked the storeroom's loaded shelves of cans and bottled goods. The cook pirouetted with dignity around the 24-foot electric stove, carefully sniffed the game rack, where hung pheasants, quail, ducks, grouse, and woodcocks waiting till they were high enough for a President's taste...
There was not money enough in the Carolinas for all the Negro folk, so Benjamin and Pearl Mason drifted north to Philadelphia. Ben washed cars in a garage. They had a baby girl, and things were all right until 1931. Then Ben lost his job, looked in vain for another. Another baby was born, a boy this time. On relief, 42-year-old Ben drew $11.40 a week. Their house had no heat except the kitchen stove. "Wasn't fit for animals," observed Pearl wearily. "Every time it rained it rained right into the house." She made what...
...loss went into trips made by U. S. citizens in their own automobiles. But a big piece was lost to U. S. bus lines and a big reason for the loss was the failure of the railroads to provide up-to-date accommodations for day coach passengers soon enough or to charge competitive fares. In the 1938 recession eastern roads actually upped fares. Bus lines quickly placed orders for new equipment...
Destry Rides Again is charged with enough buckaroo comedy* and sheer animal spirits to keep cinemaudiences chortling even when there is nothing to laugh at, makes even the widely advertised Dietrich v. Merkel hair-pulling match (the closest the picture comes to being vulgar) seem just a romp. As entertainment, Producer Pasternak's western, with hardly more pretensions than a cow town, is likely to be voted best of the year...
...Morgan, the eldest daughter, in 1900, and was a close friend and business aide of his father-in-law until his death in Rome in March 1913. Satterlee's 583-page book, now published after 26 years, is astonishingly complete, high-minded, reverent, and occasionally ingenuous or supercilious enough to transfix non-Union Club readers...