Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Three years ago she graduated to Bandster Roy, who calls her "Dedi" because simple Sarawak natives know her as "The Dayang Pearl." Mr. Roy rides mornings in Rotten Row, crickets on his private cricket field, encourages "Momma" Litman to cook when friends drop in for a party at his flat at No. 60 Park Lane. Leaving Mrs. Litman in the flat, Mr. & Mrs. Roy have rented another flat in the same building, eight floors above...
Duccio di Buoninsegna (circa 1255-1319) was the last and possibly the greatest of Byzantine painters. Their style of flat, formalized, brilliantly colored art was already dying in Duccio's time. Working in Siena as a decorator of book covers and gift boxes, he kept the tradition alive through his interest in the illuminated miniatures of old Byzantine manuscripts...
...Depression deepened, Candymaker Washburne's stores sank into debt, were closed. He dismissed his chauffeur, sold his houses, pawned his wife's jewels. Martha Washington candies vanished from public sale in New York. Last year, penniless, Mr. Washburne moved to a one-room flat. There he spent his days puttering with candy on the kitchen stove, finally concocted some sweets made of fresh fruit and vegetables. Each day he slipped out of the flat, went to Times Square. There he tied a placard on his chest, stood by subway exits selling candies made from corn, spinach, beets, carrots...
Twenty-two times have the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland drafted and printed a plan for the reorganization of their insolvent $661,000,000 Missouri Pacific Railroad. Each time creditors, bond holders or stockholders have knocked it flat. Last week RFChairman Jesse Jones, who has loaned MOP $23,000,000. declared he did not believe the Van Sweringens would put forward another unworkable proposal. But when Plan No. 23 was filed with the Interstate Commerce Committee last week, MOP's other creditors were less confident than Mr. Jones of its ultimate success...
Steel's earnings were not up to the performance of some steelmakers who, counting less on heavy industry orders, have benefited from mounting sales of flat-rolled steel for light industry uses. By last week nearly every important steel company had reported six months' earnings. These indicated that on the whole the junior members of heaviest of heavy industries had enjoyed a spanking half-year recovery...