Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carrier on the road in stock and with the Guild, serving as a radio announcer in between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says he wrote part of Awake and Sing! while cooking for fellow Groupers in their seven-room flat. A Jew like half of the Group's personnel, he likes music, plays the harmonica, is unmarried. With the proceeds of his recent successes he bought an electric phonograph. Since any man who has two hits on Broadway can command his own price in Hollywood, Broadway observers wondered...
...Aintree, two horses came to the last fence together, Thomond II got over first but faltered as he landed. Reynoldstown cleared neatly. In that moment, the result of the Grand National was decided. The Whitney horse, a flat racer trained to jump but lacking the stamina of a born steeplechaser, slowed down so badly that Lady Lindsay's Blue Prince, at 40-to-1. passed him in the stretch and took second place by three lengths...
...woman) inspected each plan for a small house ($6,000 to $7,500) for a family of three, a medium-sized house ($10,000 to $20,000) for a family of four. They awarded the grand prize ($2,500) in the first group to a drawing of a modern, flat-roofed home by Hays & Simpson of Cleveland, the grand prize in the second group to a California ranch-type house by Paul Schweikher and Theodore Warren Lamb of Chicago. General Electric plans to turn these drawings and ten other prize-winners over to real estate dealers to build 400 houses...
Meanwhile four blocks from the General Electric Building there was being proudly displayed last week a squat, flat-roofed prefabricated house which may eventually put the builders of General Electric's prize houses out of business. Since mid-February as many as a thousand persons a day have crowded into the ninth floor corridors of Grand Central Palace to view this latest stepchild of U.S. mass production...
...Manhattan, the annual convention of International Beauty Shop Owners "decreed" that the perfect U. S. girl for 1936 will be a small, flat-chested girl with naturally blonde hair...