Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first race against Yankee in the final series. In her second race Skipper Vanderbilt outmaneuvered Skipper Adams at the start to win by three minutes over the international course. A squall from the north when the boats were running before a brisk southerly breeze blew Yankee's parachute spinnaker flat against her mast, broke the jumper strut and forced her to withdraw from the third race. After the fourth, which Rainbow won in a fresh breeze over a 30-mi. triangle, by two-and-a-half minutes, observers were prepared to hear that Rainbow had been selected. Instead, they learned...
...when the last of these shall have died, the legend of Liszt's piano playing will not be enough to keep his memory alive. Thereafter he will be remembered, if at all, by his compositions. Most often heard nowadays are his hackneyed Second Hungarian Rhapsody, his A flat Liebestraüme. Concertgoers know his B minor Sonata, a few of the Poemes Symphoniques, a half dozen of his arrangements and transcriptions. The immortality of his fame depends upon the repetition of those compositions, the possible resuscitation of other Liszt pieces now almost forgotten...
...read with equanimity reports that every single employe of the U. S.'s biggest industry would soon be without a job as the result of a "national cotton textile strike," called by the United Textile Workers of America, affiliate of the A. F. of L. Preliminary negotiations having fallen flat, union leaders proclaimed their intention of fighting to a finish. Madam Secretary Perkins, said Washington wags, had fainted when she heard the news. The report was false and besides her office promptly denied that the Secretary of Labor had ever fainted in her life...
Auburn was the gold mine which supplied young Errett Lobban Cord & friends with the fortune which, between speculative excitements, they have invested in airlines, shipbuilding, taxicabs. Entering the company when it was flat on its back in 1924, Motorman Cord lofted sales from $8,000,000 in 1925 to a peak of $37,000,000 in 1929. Early in the Depression he realized that there was still a market for a smart, fast model priced under $1,000 among people who had lost their shirts but did not want their neighbors to know it. Auburn became a Depression sensation, making...
...Soglow and David G. Plotkin?Covici, Friede ($2). One hundred and five drawings in Cartoonist Soglow's more rowdy, bawdy, free-line manner, together with a treatise by Idea Man Plotkin on the "dialectical message that all is not on the level." constitute the subject matter of this large flat tome. "After clue deliberation and many consultations with our publisher," say Collaborators Soglow and Plotkin. ''we have arrived at the conclusion that the Depression must go." The result is an original opus instead of a collection of Artist Soglow's previously published pictures from the New Yorker...