Word: modicum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is of course a modicum of plot, but when the bacillus, at the end of Act 1, announces that "The play is now virtually at an end, but the actors will discuss it at length for two acts more," some are willing to add with him that "the exits are all in order." Tuesday night no one followed his hint, though in the final soliloquy there were some who gave up and left. For only in the last act does Shaw cry out in a loud voice what his puppets (and most of them were but taken...
...true that the larger breweries in this same middle-western city were installing new brewing machinery against the golden day when once again the workers of the land might seek and find solace in the foamy, varnish-colored beverage. Our acquaintance assured him that there was at least a modicum of truth in the report, and his janitor sighed deeply and departed...
...Every regime in the world, even the Turkish and Afghan, allows its subjects a modicum of liberty. Fascism alone, in self defense, is obliged to annihilate all thought...
...other attractions on the bill enliven with a modicum of success a programme that just misses being out and out dull...
Though it admitted a modicum of sense in nasal tickling, U. S. medicine at once uttered a warning. Irritation of the sympathetic system gives some relief in certain nervous disorders. Scientifically it is about on a par with the late Emile Coue's "Every day in every way I'm getting better." Dr. Gillet's master is Dr. Fernando Asuero, Spaniard who has been touring Europe and Latin America with the nose-tickling stunt...