Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then the gentlemen with him is kind enough to take him home," says Cronin, but adds hastily that "we never serve them that much, of course...
...monthly magazine, makes little instructive cartoon movies about the Marshall Plan aid, and runs a traveling agricultural exhibit supposed to convince French farmers that they could use a bright new ECA tractor. Other missions largely duplicate this pattern; all rely heavily on hand-outs to the local press for much of their publicity. Completing the propaganda facilities on our side are the various embassies, the United States Information Service, and the Voice of America...
...logical solution to problem one is to limit the number of guests in the most highly patronized dining halls, in the manner of the old Adams House rule. Problem two is more subtle. How much a hastily-gobbled frankfurter or dining with one's neighbors helps uphold the House system is unclear. But the integrity of each House, important as that is, should not be allowed to interfere with exchange of ideas which is, after all, the reason for coming to college...
...easy to make friends with people whose ideas are different, whose language we find easy to misunderstand. Sometimes they feel that we live up to our American reputation for being crude. Sometimes things happen which rub us very much the wrong way. It takes good will, patience and humilty to really make friends...
Certainly "Stormy Weather" has too much sticky sentiment, too much sound and fury. The script is not worth the paper it is written on, but not even a poor script can hold a good entertainer down...