Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carries himself, by his physical characteristics, Templeton judges him by the sounds he makes while he is walking and by the various intonations of his voice. While Mr. X is ordinarily classified as a rather dull, innocuous commuter, Templeton would rate him as a very flat A type, with not too much variation...
...great Short Bros. aircraft works, 30 miles east of London, where Imperial Airways flying boats are built. London's $25,000,000 drainage plant will soon look like a village of criss-crossed highways, farm buildings, fields and forests. Easiest to camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make look like something else are the Gothic-towered Houses of Parliament...
...Grapes of Wrath is the Oakies' saga. It is John Ernst Steinbeck's longest novel (619 pages) and more ambitious than all his others combined (Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, et al.). The publishers believe it is "perhaps the greatest modern American novel, perhaps the greatest single creative work this country has ever produced." It is not. But it is Steinbeck's best novel, i.e., his toughest and tenderest, his roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is "great...
...Cheat An Honest Man," a flat script gives Charlie McCarthy's petrified personality very little chance to stir the audience from its boredom...
Consequently, the newspapers of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take great pleasure in removing from the presses the Fourth Edition, Revised, of the H-Y-P Conference. Down where the Gothic spires of Princeton rise so incredibly from the flat tidal lands of New Jersey, men will examine the vital processes which motivate a nation; The Crimson hopes that Harvard's intellectual aristocracy will attend the examination...