Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOTTOM-Excellent revival of Gorki's philosophic Russian ne'er-do-wells (usually called The Lower Depths...
...left of the beholder. When vertical or "hanging," the stars should also be to the left. (The flag is correctly hung behind the Speaker of the House of Representatives.) The flag should never be used for bunting, which should have blue at the top, red at the bottom. When the flag is hung across a street, the stars should be to the north in an east-and-west street, to the east in a north-and-south street. When used on a table, nothing should rest upon the flag but the Bible...
...Bottom is a new translation by William L. Laurence, Russian:born U. S. newsman (New York World) of Maxim Gorki's Na Due (usually called The Lower Depths). Directed by Leo Bulgakov, persistent exponent of Russian drama in the U. S., onetime member of the Moscow Art Theatre, it is the first Manhattan production of the play since the Moscow company visited the city five years ago. Despite the fact that Mr. Laurence's version employs such U. S. colloquialisms as ''bunk . . . all wet . . . caught with his pants down," it preserves the strange compound of squalor...
Willebrandt v. Hoover? On Capitol Hill, Senator Borah busied himself collecting data to support his charge against the Prohibition enforcement personnel "from top to bottom." Audible at the White House was a rumor that none other than Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with a grudge against the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Mitchell, was supplying Senator Borah with his evidence for further assaults upon the Hoover administration's Dry record...
...welldrained, convenient spot, dig a pit 8 ft. square by 9½ ft. deep. Board up the sides with cheap lumber. Dump a layer of coarse gravel on the bottom. Over the hole build a shack with a double plank floor insulated with building paper. When freezing weather arrives pour two to four gallons of water into the pit each day. By the time of spring thaw there will be a block of ice eight feet square by more than six feet thick, on which perishables may be preserved. The ice will not all melt before the autumn freezes come...