Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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United Pressman Ralph Heinzen, chief of the Paris Bureau, staked his reputation last week on a dispatch opening with this flat statement, "Leopold III, tragic young King of the Belgians, will attempt the hazardous role of Italo-Ethiopian Peace Maker which cost Sir Samuel Hoare his Foreign Ministry and shook the prestige of Premier Laval of France. . . . Rumors current in European diplomatic quarters for several weeks that Leopold was endeavoring to bridge Anglo-Italian differences are based upon fact." Two days before, Paris Correspondent Edmond Taylor of the Chicago Tribune went off the same deep end. In Geneva fear...
...hall's lights were dimmed and the curtains finally closed. Most singers are all too eager to capitalize on a sure-fire success. To get a glimpse of Marian Anderson after last week's concert, it was necessary to travel to Philadelphia, to a respectable eight-room flat in the Negro section. There the season's outstanding new singer sat with her bad foot propped up, wrapped in a clumsy, grey woolen sock. That Philadelphia neighborhood represented home to Marian Anderson. When she was a child her father conducted a small coal & ice business nearby. Her mother...
...with a return load of oranges, automobile parts and general merchandise, the caravan headed back East by approximately the same route, this time aiming for Manhattan. Again all went without a hitch, except for an arrest in New Mexico for overloading, a 30-min. delay near Cleveland for a flat tire The caravan shouldered on through blizzards, finally waddled into Manhattan last week in seven days, beating its own schedule by 24 hours, the best railroad freight schedule by 72 hours...
Surely TIME'S intelligent and informed Religion editor could inform the foreign department that an ex-Catholic who has not communicated for years and who has openly attacked the Church can no longer be described as a Catholic without flat inaccuracy. To be a Catholic, as TIME knows well, is to be a member of the Catholic Church, and this membership is voluntary, not racial, nor an irrevocable product of onetime membership. Hitler is a de facto apostate Catholic, and his status is properly describable only as that, or simply as "ex-Catholic...
...waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...