Word: modicums
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...case. Others were for "jazzing" the case, splashing it in even larger type through 'the headlines of newspapers, thoroughly airing and "teaching the people" the theory of evolution. These men wanted Lawyers Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone for popular appeal, Lawyer Bainbridge Colby for a modicum of distinction. Hardly consulting the defendant himself, the latter group won, after mollifying Lawyer Malone with assurances that he would get as much publicity out of the trial as any one, that his Irish Catholicism and the fact that he has been divorced were not viewed as undesirable qualities...
...right in each. In such cases the elements of truth on each side were not brought face to face and weighed in the balance; but men have weighed what truth there was on their own side against the errors on the other. To see clearly one's own modicum of truth and what is wrong in one's opponents is an easy way of forming a judgment, but not a method that leads either to truth or harmony...
...high-school debauches and the vicious smut of discontented sheepherders: Fly-speckled jokes, limaceous verses, epigrams as forlornly disorderly as the cigar ashes left behind the curtain of a cheap hotel room by its last occupant. La Vie Parisienne presents pornography that often cannot be understood without a modicum of sophistication or an understanding of the more bizarre manifestations of the sexual impulse ; its drawings are occasionally clever. In these respects, it is superior to competitors. English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate whatever finesse there may have been in the original...
...consider that the present social service work for undergraduates is entirely hypocrytical. I know many college men who have taken it up. I know that practically all of them have done so for the modicum of social prestige which they hope to gain. I know that they make themselves and others believe that it is from the highest motives of brotherly love...
Speaking at the Union last night, Donald Ogden Stewart, writer, satirist, and lecturer, amused and delighted a large audience with a humorous lecture which also contained a modicum of serious thought and wise observation...