Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From anyone except the Dictator this would have sounded like flat treason and "deviation from the Party line," which has always been to consider first the collective interest. Continued Comrade Stalin's new and contrariwise directive as announced by Comrade Yakovlev: "It is better to admit openly and honestly that there should be private housekeeping on collective farms-small but private. . . . As long as family and children exist, these interests must not be neglected...
With a bit of shamrock pinned underneath her dress and a little flat prayer book in the sole of her slipper, Mary Elisabeth Moore, a 21-year-old New Yorker, made her debut last week as the youngest member of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills...
Last week Railway Express Agency, "brother-in-law of the railroads," slashed its rates between the two biggest cities on the Atlantic seaboard. Railway Express will now carry packages up to 5 lb. between New York and Philadelphia for a flat 25? instead of a maximum of 40?; will carry 100 lb. for 75? instead of $1.45; 500 lb. for $3.64 instead of $7.25-an average reduction of 50%. Reason: competition from trucks...
...nigstein was equipped to carry 300 passengers, the 14,000-ton Ilsenstein and Gerolstein 180 each. All three could still carry 450 cars apiece as against the 600 they carried as freighters. When tourists found they could go to Europe and back for a flat rate of $150, take their cars along for $120, they pack-jammed the Bernstein ships...
Less disadvantageous than it used to be in the days of much outdoor photography is the fact that southern Florida, besides being hotter than southern California in summer, is flat as a pancake, lacks all scenery except swamps, beaches, palms, truck gardens and fruit groves. Said optimistic Joe Schenck last week: "Transportation is the major asset and you have that. . . . If we have to have mountains, it isn't very far to the Carolinas...