Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like: a, very low-necked dresses? b, perfume? c, adornments in the hair? d, imitation jewelry? e, evident makeup? f, bright red nails? g, flat-heeled shoes...
...except 'e', but we don't see what flat-heeled shoes have to do with...
...over, experts wondered how much of it was due to the fact that Allison was playing better than ever before in his life, and how much to what happened to Perry in the seventh game of the first set. The first rally in that game ended when Perry fell flat on his face chasing a drive he could not reach. When he got up, he grinned to indicate that he was not hurt but thereafter throughout the match he was noticeably slower than usual, often put his hand to his side in a gesture of pain. After the match, doctors...
When, on the same day in 1902, the two railroads launched these rival limiteds, the schedule was a breathtaking 20 hours. Lately, however, airplane and streamline rivalry forced a succession of cuts-first to 18, then to 17¾, finally, last April, to 17 hours flat. The two trains can go faster, but railway officials know that density of population, roadbeds, grade-crossings make a 15-hr. schedule too dangerous to be warranted...
After a short wait, a guard ushered the newsmen into the long, narrow partners' room with its line of flat-topped desks. The desks were deserted but at the far end beneath a looming portrait of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. stood the firm's traditional spokesman, Partner Thomas Lamont, flanked by Partners George Whitney and Harold Stanley. The newsmen crowded in about the fireplace while Mr. Lamont announced the resignation of three Morgan partners, two partners of Drexel & Co., the Philadelphia affiliate...