Word: flat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plan has long been afoot to move the Senate chamber 40 feet north, so that it could have windows. Now, flanked by corridors and offices in the heart of the Senate wing of the Capitol, its ventilation is indirect save through flat, inadequate skylights...
...small, snug Berlin flat of Sinclair Lewis was devoted, for the afternoon, to cocktails, beer and tea. The guests, including famed Rosamond (The Miracle) Pinchot, toasted diversely in all three beverages a petite and pretty black-haired woman who would soon be off adventurously to Moscow. She was Dorothy Thompson, the clever, penetrating Berlin correspondent of the New York Evening Post and Philadelphia Public Ledger, which are owned by Sateveposter Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis. As she sat, nibbling an olive from the depths of her cocktail, Miss Thompson (divorced) looked pleasantly incapable of delving into Soviet Russia and returning...
Observers were vexed to find the Deity so hypocritically invoked by a statesman who recently received the Nobel Peace Prize (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). They agreed that he had flung a flat defy at Egypt...
...Majesty Samdach Préah Bat Kampuchéa Sisowath, later King of Cambodia (TIME, Aug. 22). Because King Sisowath's little realm on the Gulf of Siam became a French protectorate in 1863, his seven-months-old corpse was honored, last week, not only by black, flat-faced, wide-mouthed Cambodians, but by French officials whose glossy, narrow-waisted clothes spelled Paris...
...change for the better is evident not only on the cover of the Lampoon; parts of its interior have been renovated, and to its improvement Modern Tintypes has a chance at some fine nonsense, but falls a little flat as compared with the representation of Utopia, which whimsicality is perfect. This reader will not forget the delightful idea of the Strata eating an English Muffin. The drawing of the subway rush demonstrates the usefulness of lithographers' crayon which Lampy should not overlook in the future...