Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bald, pious Charles Wayland Bryan, brother of the late great William Jennings Bryan, got his political start in 1915 as Mayor of flat, pious Lincoln, Neb. He went on to become Nebraska's three-time Governor and the Democratic Party's skull-capped candidate for Vice President in 1924. When his third term as Governor ended last January, Brother Bryan announced that he was retiring to tend his three farms. Last week, at 68, by polling more votes than any other candi date in a nonpartisan primary, he won a nomination for Mayor of Lincoln...
...Chicago and the second biggest Brooklyn. Brooklyn real estate is the favorite merchandise of Joseph Paul Day, most extraordinary of U. S. salesmen. Many times has "Joe" Day auctioned off more than $1,000,000 worth of real estate in a single day, knocking it down with the flat of his hand for a gavel. Altogether he has sold over $1,250,000,000 worth of other people's land and buildings. Some 20 years ago he bought himself a sandspit -most of it underwater-at the east end of Coney Island, paying more than...
...dour Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of the Christian Catholic (Apostolic) Church, longtime political boss of outlandish Zion, Ill., believer in a flat World and often prophet of its imminent end. the world which he had spent 25 years in building last week crumbled. Zion's voters defeated all but one of his candidates for local office. Creditors of Zion Industries and Institutions Inc., bent on a receivership reorganization which would exclude Voliva from all share in its management, had him haled into Federal court...
Like Sohn's in principle, Davis' wings resembled a moth's rather than a bat's. Fastened to his hips by hinges, they were rigid, oval-shaped, flat, with small ailerons at the tips controlled by handgrips. No webbing was sewn between Davis' legs. Instead he had them bound together, with a small moth-like tail-wing fastened to each ankle. In compliance with Federal regulations, he wore two parachutes-one for emergency in case the other failed to open...
...done to curb Adolf Hitler, Great Britain keeps an anxious world guessing. A week ago Stresa took on the light of a New Jerusalem in men's minds. It seemed that for the first time in history Europe had stopped being Europe and was putting her cards down flat on the table for a definite showdown...