Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Down upon the thick skull of one Gottfried Feder in his student days crashed the flat of a heavy dueling sabre. Never quite the same afterward, unsuccessful Civil Engineer Feder began to preach an absurd distinction on which was founded the Nazi Party. He thought there were two kinds of capital, good and bad, raffendes and schaffendes, "grasping capital" and "creative capital." Often but not always one could tell bad capital by the fact that it was possessed by Jews. Only good capital had any proper place in the Fatherland. Orating along these lines in a beer hall, Messiah Feder...
...fourth on exhibition. When Expedition Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory by their original owner, a string looping their spool-like bases would have made them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with great delicacy, the four figures had an animation of posture and facial expression which moved Dr. Lansing to pronounce them unique...
...Leader Stanley Baldwin took the floor for the National Government, replying to Mr. Churchill. ''We believe." rumbled Mr. Baldwin, "that Germany is in the course of expansion of her long-service army of 100,000 men into a short-service, peacetime army of 300,000 men in flat violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Far more interesting is the air position. . . . The figure we have on excellent authority is 600 military aircraft. . . . The budget in 1932-33 amounted to 43,250,000 reichsmarks, and on that budget Germany was operating a very markedly successful civil aviation. The next...
...Sinclair Lewis: "Pinkish, redhead, hair smooth and flattened in front, neglected, dishevelled and bunched in brief strands behind. Irritable brow. Long flat plane from temple to collar. Flesh like canned tomatoes with the seeds in it, changing abruptly to cream-colored forehead. Pale blue clever bulgy eyes, glaring dizzily at something in offing, possibly anthill. Sandy eyelashes, invisible eyebrows, lips gathered on a drawstring with puzzled purse like old lady's reticule. Nose of a grocer adding up slip. Freckled hands with an elegant shape, sensitively caressing cigarette. Face wiggles formlessly into collar, long seamy neck to rear. Gold rimmed...
...George Gershwin: "Long head, shoe-box type. Profile extremely Hittite. Sarsaparilla coloring and a musical haircomb, blown out a bit over ears. Flat cheeks, ironed out, sweeping aggressively into bulging lip and chin. Unanalytical eyes beneath dramatic brows. Smugly aggressive mouth, insensitive, without dubiety. Good-humored, self-confident, able and limited...