Word: enough
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...liable upon conviction to more than 100 years in prison, 61-year-old Publisher Annenberg affably quipped in Philadelphia: "From the efforts and demands of the Government agents, it appears that I may well paraphrase the words of Nathan Hale-my only regret is that I haven't enough remaining years to give my country." Immensely rich, newly humble Moses Annenberg was meat for Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick, who in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch limned a pigmy Annenberg fleeing a gigantic and pursuing Uncle Sam, quipped: "Anybody making book on this race...
...last week wore on, as the nerves of the rest of the world unraveled like rope-ends, only one complaint was to be heard in Poland: What are they waiting for? Isn't it clear that compromise is out of the question? Why do they not begin? Soon enough of the questions were answered...
...which this crew, long on numbers but short on experience, with plenty of horses but not enough trucks and planes, with their share of guts but not too many guns, was undertaking last week was not just a bilateral frip-frap over a port called Danzig and a 50-mile wide carpet to the sea. It was, in the eyes of General Smigly-Rydz, a holy war. It was a war to stop the Devil, A. Hitler, before he put horns, cleft feet and an arrowy tail on every good Catholic in Poland. It was a war in which Providence...
...children's protective society forcibly shows him the error of his ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show in the way of juvenile talent from miniature tap dancers to a 14-year-old coloratura soprano (Linda Ware), who is good enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch). And in the meantime grownup Bing Crosby has had a chance to sing as well as they have ever been sung such Gus Edwards classics as School Days, Sunbonnet Sue, In My Merry Oldsmobile and By the Light of the Silvery Moon...
...legal tricks, Author-Lawyer Train suggests that: 1) cases should be tried in court, not in the yellow press; 2) suspects should be examined before trial in the presence of their counsel; 3) jury verdicts should not have to be unanimous (in murder cases, eleven out of twelve is enough, in other cases, a lesser number); 4) the use of peremptory challenges should be cut down, practically abolished. He adds: "The history of criminal legislation, however, suggests that none of these obvious reforms will be adopted at least during this generation...