Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From the opening gong in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Chocolate, his thickly greased hair shining almost grey above his ebony skin, hammered Canzoneri with his customary cruel grace. Canzoneri's flat, froglike face showed neither distress nor surprise. In the opening of the second round Canzoneri sent Chocolate reeling with a right to the temple. Chocolate, astonished, fought his way clear. A minute later Canzoneri doubled him over with a jab to the midriff, smashed a pile-driver right to his polished black jaw. Chocolate flopped flat on his face, his legs twitching. Gamely he dragged himself...
Author Rouverol (Skidding) has given the youngsters a funny, often callous play about two-dimensional adolescence, in the guaranteed tradition of Booth Tarkington. Present are the malapropisms ("hyperficial"), the big words for little feelings, the emotional roller-coasting from top to bottom to top again in a minute flat, adult poses and childish behavior...
...process of issuing bonds is more than a gathering together of idle deposits in the hands of timid investors. It is the creation of new bank deposits backed by the bonds themselves; bank-deposits which are exactly as effective for government expenditure as an issue of flat money...
...because the Federal Reserve System thus holds in the palm of its hand the whole program of government deposit creation that official or unofficial Administration control is imminent. For the banking system, by virtue of the innumerable camouflages which it affords for direct "flat" purchasing power expansion, has been chosen by the government as its printing press, and it is unlikely that the government will idly watch Nine Men throw monkey wrenches into the equipment...
...price level will not attend an expansion of purchasing power, let the government go ahead and issue bonds and fail to balance its budget as far as is necessary to the successful execution of its recovery and unemployment relief program. The specific result of such an expenditure of government flat would be a stimulation of physical production which would, as soon as it reached the markets, exert a downward influence on prices sufficient to offset the initial upward influence of the new purchasing power. And the elastic limit of physical production in this country is still a long...