Word: scintilla
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Whether they like it or not, U. S. readers-and especially Midwesterners-will admit that The Folks rings true, has no perceptible alloy in its honest realism. Its cumulative power lies in the fact that it is written straight, with no scintilla of satire or sentimental sympathy. Foreigners might object to the almost total absence of ideas in the book. To them a U. S. reader could reply that the Midwest is the U. S.'s backbone, not its brain...
...larceny brought by two Straus bondholders, the Misses Anna & Katherine Kuhlmann (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week Nick Roberts, whose annual barn party for Yale footballers in Montclair, N. J. was a nationally famed event, was completely exonerated. After a short trial the judge ruled that there "was not a scintilla of evidence" to support the charges...
...afterward. When they cut loose from the husband, why not let them go back to their families? Or get out, if their poor old fathers can no longer afford to keep them in the manner to which they are accustomed, and scratch for a living? There is not one scintilla of reasonable argument dictating that a divorced man should support some woman he is no longer living with. Only sentimentality and maudlin legal precedent are responsible for this unnatural, stupid state of affairs. Turn the parasites out to root for themselves...
...There is not one scintilla of agreement or obligation of any character outside the treaty itself...
...expressions. . . . While his explanation may not be as clear and as bright as the noonday sun, I'm delighted that the declaration of policy enunciated by the Foreign Relations Committee is neither controverted nor denied. We may accept now as settled the rights of the Senate. . . ." "Not One Scintilla" But President Hoover did not feel that everything was 'settled" He threw himself into the fray with the words: "The real issue in the Treaty is whether we shall stop competitive naval building . . . whether we shall spend an enormous sum in such a race . . and whether the present agreement...