Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...written with much deftness, its vocabulary is interesting, and its use of quotation is admirable-really finished piece of craftsmanship. I find in it, however, one or two mannerisms that ought to be cut out, and I don't like the ending. The last three lines are flat; the poem should be left to speak for itself without this unnecessary exhortation...
...Forever" and Chet goes off to the Spanish War in the blue pants and campaign hat of his militia company. Nine years later Chet loses his job and his insurance in the 1907 panic. He does not complain when his thankless, drunken brother-in-law leaves the little family flat for a discreditable marriage. Ten years later Chet and Eve's son, a promising youngster with artistic talent, goes off to his war. Eve is knitting an olive drab sweater behind a window with a service flag when the telegram comes from the War Department. . . . Back under...
...view with deep concern the increasing interference of governments with international trade. . . . The delegates are very charming diplomats, but very few of them know anything about wheat." Finally last week Argentina's Delegate Tomas A. Le Breton broke up the meeting by handing in Argentina's flat refusal to join in a minimum price agreement. That produced the climax all members had long been expecting. A subcommittee was named to inter the remains of the Wheat Conference...
...ahead, he eased up as he flashed under the wire a winner. Discovery placed. Agrarian took the show. Over the wires in the press coop, high in the old gimcrack stands, Cavalcade's statistics flashed out to the world. His time for the 1¼ mi. was 2104 flat, no derby record. He was the second English-bred horse to win the race, having been imported in utero when Hastily was in foal to Lancegaye. Only other imported winner was Omar Khayyam (1917). Winner of all this year's three starts as a 3-year-old, Cavalcade received...
...such little internationalism as the world has achieved so far. The control of these myriad companies vests, finally, in not more than a handful of men whose power, in some ways, reaches above the power of the State itself. Thus, French interests not only sold arms to Hungary in flat violation of the Treaty of Trianon, but when Hungary defaulted on the bill the armorers got the French government to lend Hungary the money to pay the French armorers. Thus, too, the great Czechoslovakian armament company, controlled by Frenchmen, promoted the rise of Hitler in Germany and contributed millions...