Word: modicums
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...this same group huddled together for mutual protection at a table in a Freshman dining hall while their reason d'etre gazed with kindred timidity from the other end of the room. In short the Advisors are at last beginning to function in their proclaimed capacity and with a modicum of cooperation from their advisees in the form of normal curiosity and absence of reticence are in a position to do the entering class invaluable service. If the ins of college life are not demonstrated with all the clarity desirable, at least the advisors may render a timely warning concerning...
...George Arthur) is the sasser, and a bulky one (Karl Dane) symbol of the sassed, there is the added Mutt & Jeff twist. All this is stuffed into the story of a rookie at a military training camp, making for a minimum of subtlety, a maximum of facial contortion, a modicum of hilarity...
...intended to give the reader all the dynamiting and slaughter at the expense of paring down the Arabian milieu. This was a doubtful course?like abridging the Iliad into a penny dreadful about a wooden horse. Fortunately, Mr. Lawrence has done his own abridging and retained more than a modicum in the original nobler and broader strain. The book is simply what its author pleases the public shall read; and such is the nature of vox populi that hosannas are being sung...
Honeymooning is a rowdyish jamboree, in which only the naive may find a modicum of unsophisticated amusement. The bridegroom plays dead on his wedding night, while the bride repents the cruelty that supposedly made him commit suicide and the in-laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes...
Conservative and Liberal news organs pronounced a pious benediction on the Conference last week, were evidently relieved at its contentment with a modicum of accomplishment. But the Laborite Daily Herald bluntly said...