Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Houses. In Hazleton, Pa. on the outskirts of the anthracite region, stands a neat rectangular little dwelling painted sky green and as simple as a candy box. Under its flat roof of rolled steel-&-aluminum are a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. The cellarless foundation is aero-cement; the frame, steel; the walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing...
...Flat denials of the story that K. B. Murdock '16, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, had been nominated by the Corporation for President of the University were made last night by numerous officials. T. N. Perkins '91, a member of the Corporation, said, "No action has yet been taken, nor can any decision be made until the next meeting of the Corporation, on Monday, April...
...case Dr. Chaffin, operating in a glass-enclosed cage, wants to say something which does not concern his students, he presses his left elbow to his side. Underneath his operating gown at that side he wears a wide, flat, brass spring, pressure on which disconnects microphone from loudspeaker...
...reason for Mr. Aldrich's move was self-evident: the promised Senate investigation of the Chase Bank, no matter what it discloses, will now fall flat, for Mr. Aldrich has by his statement repudiated the policies of his predecessor, Albert Henry Wiggin. He can, unlike Charles Edwin Mitchell, declare himself in agreement with the critics of his bank. Moreover banking reform measures are now bound to be enacted, and little would be gained but public censure by opposing them. By speaking out Mr. Aldrich bettered his position, aligned himself with the prevailing banking spirit of the times...
...qualities essential to young female cinema stars are: 1) looks, 2) ability to wear clothes, 3) ability to act. Katharine Hepburn looks, as most promising cinemactresses now do, faintly like Greta Garbo. She wears sleek clothes with severe insouciance. She acts with intelligent assurance, speaks in a strong, flat, curiously pleasant voice with the inflections of a polite upbringing in Hartford, Conn. Miss Hepburn did her first acting at Bryn Mawr, where she graduated in 1929, acquired the defect of talking too fast. Among other requisites for a U. S. Garbo, she has greenish eyes, red hair, second-hand...