Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lockwood "remonstrated"' with him to let the drunk alone. The drunk caterwauled. The guardsman knocked the drunk down, broke his eyeglasses. Mr. Lockwood rushed up. The guardsman spanked Mrs. Lockwood with the flat of his sabre. Husband Lockwood punched the guardsman's eye. More green and yellow men appeared, took the five to Palma's jail in the ruins of a medieval monastery. Charge: the military offense of assaulting a Civil Guard. Minimum penalty if convicted by a military court: five years. Two of the five prisoners, including Rutherford Fullerton, were held only as witnesses...
...Because it is more conceivable, less Dantesque than the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, it is perhaps the most solemn natural spectacle in the world. First the earth burst open, then a glacier, next an ancient lake hollowed out and smoothed over this vast and verdant chasm. From its flat, pine-needled floor, grey monoliths rise 3,000 ft. around its edges. Bridal Veil Falls trails softly to nothingness from the top of the west rim. In the middle of the valley is Yosemite, which has a comfortable hotel and one of the coldest swimming pools on earth...
...done in oils. Its fantastic peaks and spires stand on the floor of the Virgin River Canyon in glittering pinks, whites and vermilions. The Great White Throne of Zion has a history as awesome as its name. Only two men have ever stood in the forest which caps its flat and crumbly sides. One was so unnerved by the descent that he was killed on an easier climb two days later. The other fell on the way down, survived only to become a nervous wreck...
...without using more than four balls. Even when after winning the first he dropped the second and third sets, he seemed clearly in control of the match, waiting for Crawford to tire. When he came out for the fourth with a new racket and began to hit his flat drives even harder than before, it looked more than ever as though Crawford was on the run. When Vines took the set and they started the last one with 23 games each, the crowd of 20,000 scarcely dared to breathe. Each man won his serve until the tenth game, Vines...
Most famed and applauded of "Businessmen Painters." Artist Bruce retired from active business in 1922 to devote his entire time to his flat decorative landscapes and formal figures. As a painter he is as methodical as he was a lawyer. He works eight hours a day. During the three years they spent together in Anticoli. Italy he drove his artistic mentor, tempera mental Maurice Sterne, to the verge of exhaustion by forcing him to keep the same rigorous hours. Best known Bruce canvas. Panorama of San Francisco, hangs in the San Francisco Stock Exchange. The Luxembourg has another...