Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stunt by Swiss hotelkeepers backfired last week, sending the Swiss franc down below its gold point for the first time in months. To attract British winter sportsmen, the stunting bonifaces advertised that in settlement of Swiss hotel bills the pound sterling will be accepted as worth 16 Swiss francs flat. Last week the pound was worth 15.31 Swiss francs on international exchange. In effect the Swiss hotelkeepers had merely cut their rates. But Paris seethed with angry talk: "The Swiss, like the Germans, are creating an unfair cut-rate currency. What is the difference between the 'tourist franc...
...whole, though one gets the feeling that old Honest Bob, the people's friend, still can see what needs satirical comment, but has a hard time trying to write it. His nonsense falls just the least bit flat, but its a case of where a little goes a long way. He sees the faults of the day's work, but he sees them too obviously and the result is one which even the Gluyas Williams drawings have a hard time counteracting...
Dazzled by double spinners, triple reverses, fake forwards and lateral-pass combinations, in which as many as six men handled the ball, Tulane was caught flat-footed against Andy Kerr's dexterous Colgate team...
...University of California had the most needy students-1,898. Princeton put itself down for aid to 275. Columbia listed 595; University of Wisconsin, 884; University of Minnesota, 1,158. Harvard turned the Government's offer down flat. Richest university in the land, it needed no Federal handout. Yale's conscience stuck at the required guarantee that each student aided would have to quit college unless the relief funds were given him. Explained Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell: "We felt that in signing this we would possibly be making a dishonest statement...
...Rothafel, saw a preview of Lady For A Day. Taken to a farewell supper, she waltzed, drank, acted as if her Day were to last forever. At midnight Apple Annie vanished from the ball. The pressagents gave her $25 and the clothes she wore, dropped her at her dingy flat...