Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Llewellyn Lewis had turned the meeting hall into a wildcats' den, had inveighed against the all-powerful, conservative Executive Council -finally knocking a fellow vice president flat-but that did not prevent sanctimonious President William Green from winding up last month's American Federation of Labor convention with: "It becomes our duty now to forget. The debate is over. The problems have been solved...
...issue of flat money is the most dangerous device which a country can use to finance any enterprise, regardless of the nature of the purpose...
Warning that the next Congress is likely to pay the soldiers' bonus by issue of $2,500,000,000 in flat money, five Harvard professors have joined 75 other economists in calling for the organization of effective public opposition...
...there are some brilliant spots along the drab, flat thread. It's fun to have a chuckle at pompous, helpless royalty a is "Jubilee," but nobody gets very excited over royalty now-a-days. It's fun to pursue the intricacies of the barter system; to see a man pay for a meal with a chicken; get two chicks and an egg an change; flip the egg to the waiter for a tip. It's positively delightful to see a Gallic jibe at our own despot: to see all the new hats tossed into the river to improve...
Although his arm is in an "aeroplane splint," which holds it at an angle over his head, and allows no movement of his shoulder or right side, and despite the prospect of from four to six weeks more flat on his back, he is in good spirits, and was able to see a funny side to his accident...