Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...private dinner in Havana Mr. Caffery saw President Grau's inquisitive, narrow face, Generalissimo Fulgencio Batista's flat, boisterous visage. Warily the three drew together. Next night Mr. Caffery went to the Palace for dinner. He told newshawks afterward that neither he nor President Grau had mentioned U. S. recognition. When President Roosevelt's non-intervention speech was published several days later, Generalissimo Batista tried his hand at a little fulsome diplomacy: "I always knew Roosevelt's policy was based on the solid, ample force of the great, free American people, which respects the rights...
...talked-about actress in the U. S. Too young and too shy, in the presence of an audience, to seem as commanding a personality on the stage as on the screen, she gave a talented, clever performance marred only by a trick of keying her voice to a high, flat monotone to indicate emotional intensity...
...perpetual closeup. but otherwise her acting and good looks have been improved. There is a sharp flicker of vitality at the end of Jezebel's second act: against one of Don ald Oenslager's superbly romantic sets. dressed in an inverted fountain of white lace, her voice flat with excitement and despair, she celebrates the fact that a duel has resulted from her bad behaviour by singing a gay song with her slaves. The fact that she was born in Bainbridge, Ga., 29 years ago and can still remember her Southern accent has aided Miriam Hopkins to impersonate...
...crisp, commanding sentences, shouted in parade ground tones, Speaker Goring "requested" the Deputies to leap to their feet in unison when they wished to signify approval. Popping up and down like a roomful of marionets, the Reichstag transacted all business of the week in seven and a half minutes flat, re-elected Speaker Goring, elected three Vice Presidents, empowered Speaker Goring to appoint all committees and adjourned sine die, subject to the Speaker's call...
...hand in addition to Messrs. Robert and Bruce were Art Critic Forbes Watson as technical director, President Roosevelt's Uncle Frederic Adrian Delano, Braintruster Rexford Tugwell, CWAdministrator Harry L. Hopkins. The Com mittee was given $3.000.000 to provide work for 2.500 artists decorating public buildings at the flat rate of $35 per week. It was announced that not only strictly Federal buildings would be decorated by CWArtists but also any or all buildings into which Federal dollars were to be invested. The work need not be limited to murals. Easel paintings, statues, friezes, memorial tablets, prints, drinking fountains, even...