Word: flat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...astounding "Grande Catherine" of this orgy is a woman of 42. Her dark determined eyes seemed never to waver under police querying. When she had answered a question her straight almost lipless mouth shut in a thin, flat line. At her sumptuous estate in Boulogne, where she was arrested, she said disdainfully to the somewhat excited and strenuous investigators: "Here are my keys. You need not trouble to burst open my drawers and root in them like cochons." Even in jail she seemed undiscouraged. "My arrest, pouf! It is nothing," she said, "I work by American methods...
...pledged himself to uphold the right of free speech and therefore could not muzzle the buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...
...country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government's handling the electric by-product "as private enterprise can very well fill this field." Again let the Muscle Shoals power and nitrate plants be leased, urged the President...
...year the approach of an important game found the squad without work for two weeks due to the lack of ice. Resourceful as Ulysses, the manager produced a dozen pairs of roller skates. Up to the flat top of the Stadium trudged the team, and donned their rollers. A pistol was fired, and the men darted off to skate skate the top of the horseshoe and back. Tire trouble, specifically the loss of the rubber covering of the skate wheels, caused the withdrawal of all the entrants but one. He finished and still holds the Stadium roller skating record...
...greater part of the permanent exhibition is of framed photographs, such as those of locomotives, stations, a Camden and Amboy engine with driving wheels nine feet in diameter and a smoke-stack ten feet high, and special train of flat cars carrying a consignment of 30 horse-drawn coaches from Concord, N. H. to Omaha, Nebraska...