Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musicomedy Du Barry Was a Lady is all there. Its costumes are gorgeous, its goings-on boisterous. Its wit is almost nil, but its wisecracks are raw as a cannibal sandwich, suggestive as a red light burning in the hall. Bert Lahr is at his best-which is good enough. Ethel Merman is at her best -which is tops...
...Winn Parish, walked into the dingy Union Street office of the New Orleans Item one day and asked for a job. Said Marshall Ballard, editor of the Item then & now: "I'll give you $10 a week." Said Huey, grinning as he walked out : "That's not enough. Keep your eye on me-I'm going places...
...Department of Agriculture, foreseeing laborious years of further experiment ahead, was slow to follow their lead. Thoroughgoing research programs at corn-belt stations did not get under way until 1920, and until 1933 practically no hybrid corn was grown commercially. Not until last year were seed supplies plentiful enough for growers to take their choice of several tested hybrids, instead of having to buy simply "hybrid corn...
...Renfro" Knickerbocker, prize-seal of Hearst's International News Service, disembarked in Manhattan, gloomily prophesied that the present war will last for "six years or so ... after that the real war begins. . . . None of us will ever live to see peace again. . . . There'll be bloodshed, and enough to go around to satisfy everybody...
...sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions of the world's other musical centres...