Word: whit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never shrouded by the verbosity of the translator, and it is not the latter's fault that you are at first plunged into the long-winded legal history of the famous Gregor vs. Pruss case. However, you soon emerge with the blessed realization that it doesn't matter a whit if you did not follow it all. In only goes to show that the wheels of justice grind slow and exceeding fine in Czecho-Slovak, as they do in English...
...have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would not be violated or disrespected one whit more than they are violated here tonight in serving us coffee. The beverage use of intoxicating liquors is definitely, broadly and sweepingly prohibited, absolutely regardless of the kind of intoxicating liquor, whether alcoholic or narcotic, and absolutely regardless of the degree of concentration, so long as it may be taken...
...club a young man in a gray suit, soft shirt, loosely tied scarf, shook his tousled yellow hair engagingly, introduced me to the beautiful lady with whom he was dancing and sat down. They were Mr. and Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Scott seems to have changed not one whit from the first time I met him at Princeton, when he was an eager undergraduate bent upon becoming a great author. He is still eager. He is still bent upon becoming a great author. He is at work now on a novel which his wife assures...
...shutting its ears to all talk of the war, America is not a whit different from other countries. To a large part of the world the very sound of the word has become anathema. What shall be said, then, when but six years after the close of one tremendous catastrophe, Mr. Villard, the editor of the Nation, returns from Europe and in a speech last Sunday night predicts another by next April? Have people's sensibilities become so dulled that they are unable to conceive of another war germinating out of the war to end wars...
Nevertheless, John is no whit daunted. His flint-lock is loaded to the muzzle, his pistol is by his side, and every wary instinct is more fully aroused than ever. He has thrown open his arena to the bull-dog today, the better to entrap him; and it will be a lucky bulldog who does not have to be dragged out again by the heels...