Word: modicums
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...went to Arizona three winters ago. Broadacre City is Wright's answer to urbanization. He believes some-thing like it is already happening in the movement of people out of cities through suburbs to the open country. Its fulfillment would complete this process, giving every citizen his modicum acre of land in communities spread out along the transportation routes. Frank Lloyd Wright's city, he has said, would be "everywhere and nowhere...
...keep faith with audiences who have grown to expect a modicum of Yankee Doodle from Actor Cohan on any stage. the President closes the show with a typical Fourth of July speech about the U. S.. "A country where, if things are wrong you can get right out and talk about them. And . . . there aren't many countries like that left in the world...
...treaty that ended the War of 1812. Last week Albert Gallatin's wealthy, socialite great-grandson gave an art exhibition at Manhattan's Paul Reinhardt Galleries. Assisting him were the equally social Charles G. Shaw, Susie Frelinghuysen and her husband George L. K. Morris, who attracted a modicum of attention last summer by inserting the name of their snub-nosed Pekingese, Rose, in the New York Social Register. Artists Gallatin, Shaw, Frelinghuysen & Morris hung up some 20 canvases on which numerous arrangements of angular and circular planes had been soberly defined and painted, in some cases pasted...
...British Nonconformity." With Canon Percy Dearmer she founded fellowship services at Kensington Town Hall, then set up as an independent minister at Guild-house in London's Eccleston Square. Possessor of an intellect vastly superior to any Aimee Semple McPherson (see below), Preacher Royden nevertheless employed a modicum of showmanship in uniforming her attendants and herself in berets, trim dark gowns. Plain, somewhat masculine in manner, far from robust since she was born with both hips dislocated, Dr. Royden worked hard putting her intensely personal messages across, retired completely exhausted after every sermon...
...because he is already doing "life." Misconduct can extend a lifer's prison stay by years, while it seldom costs a termer more than 30 or 60 days as punishment for rule infractions. Furthermore, because of the very indefiniteness of his imprisonment, he realizes, if he has a modicum of intelligence, that he is the fellow most likely to become "stir-simple," a malignant disease of the mind brought by resignation to the monotony of institutionalization. Now, time, considered abstractly, is nothing. Man is the only animal who seems to be cognizant of it, and even then only finds...