Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disillusion was slow but sure. Priest Coughlin is bitter in his hatred of the Federal Reserve System and its banker-managers. By last March he was calling the New Deal a flat failure largely because "President Roosevelt has compromised with the money changers." His savage attack in Cleveland last week led observers to believe that the President would have to step to the Coughlin whip or count the Priest lost...
...American Society of Orthodontists in Manhattan, Elizabeth McDowell, professor of speech at Columbia University, declared that Franklin Roosevelt's broadcasting was of unusual quality because his mouth is "built for sound"-wide jaw, low, wide, not too flat palatal arch, a tongue as wide as the arch. Miss McDowell declined to describe Mrs. Roosevelt's oral acoustics...
...over a year, whenever two small French children have asked where their mother was, their old nurse has said: "In the hospital." The French Republic made itself a party to this story. From the uncomfortable little flat where the nurse had been keeping them on her own savings, the children were driven to a hospital and there for a few hours they saw their mother, Arlette Stavisky. widow of France's most famed swindler, once Chanel's most beautiful model, propped up in bed with her leg in a most realistic bandage. The children could scarcely believe their...
Next the hands caught up thin flat muscles from the scalp, swung them around and under the loose cheek skin, anchored them at the girl's lip. Quick stitches joined the open parts of the face. Before the operation, the patient had been unable to move a muscle of the left side of her face. Two weeks later, another picture showed, the girl could wink, smile, purse her lips...
...until U. S. railroads were flat on their backs, did Rev. Calthrop's "Air-Resisting Train" come into its own. With nearly one-third of the country's Class I rail mileage in bankruptcy, with two-thirds of the passenger traffic lost since 1929 to motorcars, busses, airlines, something had to be done. The bogey of government ownership, long the subject of dark predictions by Federal Transportation Co-Ordinator Eastman, loomed ominously close with the introduction of a bill in the Senate fortnight ago to have the U. S. take over in January...