Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Days Without End (by Eugene O'Neill; produced by the Theatre Guild). There is something extraordinary about every Eugene O'Neill play. In this one it is a ferocious mannikin with unbrushed hair, a flat, angry voice and a perpetual frown. He (Stanley Ridges) is the personification of the lower self that belongs to the hero, John Loving (Earle Larimore), visible to the audience whenever Loving is on the stage but never to the other people in the play. In the first act, Loving and his gloomy shadow are to be seen seated, like the riders...
There is one factor, however, in these "emergency-law" cases which may cause difficulty. How many times a session will the Court be called upon to enter upon the question of the existence of the emergency? How much weight will the Courts give to the legislative flat which declares the existence of the emergency? Will our lower courts be swamped with cases at every slight upturn in business by litigants claiming that the national (or state or local) emergency has ceased to exist? The most likely answer is that the Courts will place more and more reliance upon the opinion...
...payed for through taxation, as the War is still being paid for. But by a little cooperation with the Federal Reserve Banks, the Treasury can finance at least part of the program without its costing a cent. The method is equivalent in effect to the issue of flat money but entails none of the disadvantages, real or fancied, of greenback inflation. It involves nothing more sensational than the sale of bonds to the Reserve Banks. The Treasury will have to pay interest on these bonds? Quite so, but the interest will be in the nature of profit to the Reserve...
Tenor Martini went to the Metropolitan handsomely advertised by Columbia Broadcasting System which for the past year has sponsored his radio performances. But for all his beautiful legs and a smooth, ingratiating voice critics found him short of Metropolitan standards. He was often flat. His loudly-touted top notes were strained. It was the oldtimer who had the week's warmest reception. Soprano Claudia Muzio, who left the Met twelve years ago to sing in Chicago, returned, gave a stirring performance in La Traviata...
...present Fascist developments, and other movements of that kind are not real revolutions. They are fruitless and sterile. The average man of today is too flat; has not the 'springs' with which to drive himself into the future. He talks always of his ancestors; to get anywhere he should change inheritance to heritage, he should become an ancestor himself. The people of America seem to be rising out of this flatness better than those of any other nation they are coming to realize that the present day is equally, if not more, thrilling and interesting than the past...