Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That promise did not satisfy Michael Tighe. The Government had promised no less in the Weirton Steel case, only to fall flat in Wilmington court last week (see col. 2). The union did not want merely elections, which might not result to its advantage. It wanted recognition and a closed shop...
From that, era when "we think we were really steeped in sin," It was but a short time until "the shadow of the college boards cropt among us and the college group began to sink on its flat heels...
...written, her own threnody: Now Bonnie and Clyde are the Barrow gang, I'm sure you all have read How they rob and steal, And how those who squeal, Are usually found dying or dead. . . . If they try to act like citizens And rent them a nice little flat, About the third night they are invited to fight By a submachine gun rat-tat-tat. Some day they will go down together, And they will bury them side by side. To a jew it means grief, To the law it's relief, But it is deafh to Bonnie...
...first private words to her after their wedding at Saratoga during the races: "Sweet, I had a bad day today and I'll need your jewelry for a few days." She could tell when he was losing because although his face did not change, his voice grew flat. She told how he did not bother to watch the finish of a horse-race on which he won $800,000; how he arranged the hoax whereby Nicky Arnstein, for whom New York police had been hunting for six months, rode to headquarters to surrender in a touring...
...world's 20 largest corporations got together on a life-term installment program for goods and services. They offered each subscriber complete equipment for living-food, clothing, a home, an auto, a plane, television, and a world travel ticket good on all trains and boats-all for a flat monthly payment. In 1953 they threw in a life and disability insurance policy. In 1959 they added medical service complete. ... At the end of 1969, an agreement was reached whereby the asylums of the country filled all political offices with harmless nuts suffering from delusions of grandeur. . . . On July...