Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugenia ("Nini") Woodward Jelke, 27, Alabama socialite; after a sensationally disgusting trial in Newport, R. I. Grounds: that both were guilty of extreme cruelty. Jelke's allegation that his wife was guilty of infidelity because she kept secret trysts with a mysterious major at the notorious Birmingham flat of a "Madame" Ethel Hartman was denied. The statements of Mrs. Hartman, who had been paid $5,200 for expenses to testify for Mr. Jelke and then testified for Mrs. Jelke instead, were discredited by the Court. The alleged misbehavior of Mrs. Jelke and one Robert White of Manhattan were dismissed...
Unlike U. S. racetracks, the Epsom course is not flat. For a half-mile it runs uphill 100 feet till it reaches Tattenham Corner, slopes downhill to a level stretch, then rises at the finish. Tattenham Cor- ner, named after a manor house which mysteriously disappeared, is a dangerous hairpin turn with a sharp downdrop. At the start of the race, Hyperion's jockey, Tommy Weston, let his stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years...
...Allison of Allison Engineering Co., to accommodate a top speed of 80 m.p.h. Automobile speeds have so increased that no car may now race at the Speedway unless it can go 100 m.p.h. The track is graded at 45° on the turns, 20° on the short straightaways, flat on the stretches. The only attempt to improve it since it was built was just before this year's race when bricks were re-laid at Gateway Leap, the name of the bump on the southwest turn. Re-paving failed to eliminate the bump. Drivers say the track...
...simply wanted them to rent a room in her middle-aged love nest. Pinneberg pulled what wires came to hand and became a salesman in a slave-driving department store. Bunny luckily turned out to be a good manager. They left his shameless mother's flat, got a tiny apartment almost as cheap as it was inconvenient, counted every pfennig twice before they let go. But shortly after the baby was born Pinneberg was fired. They moved out to a hut in the country; Bunny went out washing by the day; Pinneberg minded the baby and tried to keep...
...begun to worry her. Jerry's mother was a mean, sly old woman who did her best to break up the engagement; Adriane saw through her but Jerry could not. As a last gambling expedient Adriane lured Jerry away for a weekend with her; when he left her flat in answer to his mother's fretful telegram, she knew she had lost. But when Bernard, a gentleman racing driver and an old patient of Adriane's, turned up as a casualty in her ward, she began to feel less sorry for herself...