Word: modicums
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...Critics. Throughout the career Mr. Lindsay has been praised and attacked with the utmost heartiness by critics of high grade and low. However, it is generally admitted by any with a modicum of intelligence that he is one of the most individual and interesting poets of present-day America...
...widely different points. of appeal. One is the curious fascination of an amiable trick elephant (Oscar); the other the uncommon good looks of the heroine. Though the rest of the production be negligible, for those who have a friendly feeling for Madge Bellamy and elephants it will afford a modicum of entertainment...
...public--that colleges should not only be the treasure-houses of the old but the birthplaces of the new. And one of the advantages of these experiments is that they need not and should not be performed before an esoteric few. Assuming that undergraduates possess an average modicum of intelligence, their attendance at such an experimental performance as is to be given tonight is certain to broaden their appreciation, and also to add valuable weight to the acceptance or rejection of the work under discussion...
...with the volume of the skull, but still the mass of the convolutions was regarded as somehow significant of ability. But the brains of the greatest weight have belonged indiscriminately to scientists and suicides, mad men and bricklayers. And men of superlative genius have done their work with a modicum of tissue that any self-respecting lunatic would disown...
...Hopwood. Or (as in Dagmar, the sophisticated melodrama with Nazi mova), put three beach chairs on a yellow stage with a blue backdrop and call it the seashore. In Mary the 3rd, Rachel Crothers' humorous tragedy of incompatibility, the first two scenes are mounted only with draperies, a modicum of furniture, and off-stage music...