Word: enough
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take sides may play a vital military part, for they may be invaded. Britain and France count on three neutrals in particular to hold off the Germans for a time. The Swiss have besides a strong mountainous position a small but tough civilian army, probably strong enough to keep Nazis from trying to outflank the Maginot Line to the south. The Belgians are armed to teeth, and their country is well fortified. The Dutch can flood part of their country to keep Germans out of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague. Each of these three is apparently strong enough to fight...
...included the tenderest painting in the exhibition, a picture of three lost-looking children done in white, grey and sepia by a young artist named Fidelio Ponce de Leon,* and the most effective sculpture, a torqued Figure (see cut, p. 36) by handsome, 27-year-old Rita Longa. Significantly enough, Rita Longa is chief of the Section of Teaching and Art Appreciation in the Department of Culture under the Cuban Ministry of Education. This department was created after the overthrow of President Gerardo ("Butcher") Machado in 1933 and is regarded by Cuban artists as a great national victory...
Into the respectable wholesale drug house of John Wyeth & Bro., Inc. stumbled Fred Barrick last month. Waving an official Government order blank signed by Dr. Anders, he demanded 500 half-grain tablets of morphine sulphate, enough to choke a team of horses. Since Government order blanks are for the personal use of physicians who purchase narcotics wholesale for office use, the druggists promptly called the narcotic squad...
Barrick was clapped into prison, where he threw two "whizbangs" (fake convulsions), demanded ten grains of morphine. (Average pain-killing dose: between 1/6 and ¼ grain.) Strangely enough, after several dopeless days, he did not become violent or sick, as most addicts do, but calmed down, gained weight...
...above report is an invention. But so was the report published by Paris newspapers that four Italian soldiers of the 27th Infantry Regiment had presented themselves to the French military authorities . . . saying that they had not had enough to eat in Italy...