Word: modicums
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This will call for consummate timing. Priorities of effort will have to be assigned. Each ally will have to sacrifice a modicum of its own advantage for the common...
...Never Get Rich" is an A-1 Hollywood musical. In several strikingly good dance numbers the new Astaire-Hayworth dance duo tops his last few combinations and equals the old Astaire-Rogers terpsichorean team. Astaire still can't sing and can't act, but the picture wisely requires a modicum of the former and a minimum of the latter. A simple story of how drafted stage star Astaire wins colonel's lady Hayworth, the plot is covered in a few mediocre but short stretches between the excellent musical numbers...
...photographed vaudeville by polypnosed W. C. Fields, assisted by Gloria Jean, Franklin Pangborn and other stage properties. As such, it is strong drink for cinemaddicts who believe that the Great Man can do no wrong, small beer for those who think that even a Fields picture should have a modicum of direction...
...Many U. S. citizens go traveling at this time of year, on warm trains across State and national borders; a few of them even go to warmer countries, with no more papers than passports and certificates of health. Even the underprivileged third-of-the-nation has a modicum of heat, light, food and clothing...
...this was one more headache to the hamstrung Government of Vichy. But there was a modicum of cold comfort in the fact that it had also become a headache for the Germans. Harried little Vice Premier Pierre Laval, summoned to Paris by German Ambassador Otto Abetz, returned to Vichy last fortnight and ordered General Maxime Weygand to Morocco to see what could be done. But last week General Weygand was still in Vichy, although no longer a member of the Pétain Cabinet...