Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Though flat, is never level...
...Harvard-Yale race. They also gave the Freshmen to understand that they had better select Lake George or Philadelphia or Saratoga, or some other course where good management would gladly be promised them, instead of New London, where their presence would be merely tolerated rather than welcomed. A flat refusal to superintend the proposed race on any conditions whatever was only prevented by a desire to avoid an appearance of incivility in the face of a public which could not be expected to understand the difficulties of the case. Perhaps the last straw which turned the balance was the dislike...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The ever popular Robson and Crane appear the rest of this week, and next week in their new piece, "Sharps and Flats." It is unnecessary to add that they have made a complete success. Mr. Crane takes the part of a retired preacher and lecturer, Dullstone Flat, who wishes to see something of the world, and does so under the efficient guidance of Cutler Sharp (Mr. Robson). Nov. 8, the Strakosch and Hess Opera Company will open with "Aida," - Marie Roze in the title-role. "Faust," "Fra Diavolo," "Carmen...
...course, different people show their insanity in different ways. If you should ask me how you show yours, I might tell you that you have an abnormal leaning - towards certain mad tendencies. You crook out your elbows; you part your hair in the middle; you brush it down flat upon your temples (such foolishness as school-girls only used to be capable of); you never by any chance confess an interest in anything except tennis and Germans. Indifference, I believe you call it. But goodness preserve me from such a disposition! it is but a form of insanity which would...
...enough or straight, and gets his oar too high from the water on the full reach. Five clips, and six settles. Seven settles, squirms, and does n't pull his hands in high. The general faults are also numerous. The four bow men lack reach. All have a flat feather, none raise their hands high enough, or shoot away quick. Some of the men evidently don't pull a proportional share...