Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the sunny oval room shuffled some 120 newshawks, the corps of eyes & ears through which the country sees its President from day to day. Behind a flat-topped desk sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his mouth stretched wide, his eyes half closed in a vigorous grin. He was smoking a cigaret in a long ivory holder. Behind the President stood his three secretaries, Col. Louis McHenry Howe, Marvin Hunter Mclntyre, Stephen Tyree Early. Miss Marguerite Lehand, his personal secretary, sat in the window ledge. Near his elbow sat his stenographer, Grace Tully, with pad & pencil. Another stenographer, Henry Kannee, occupied...
Versailles Violated. Measures taken included flat violation of the Treaty of Versailles by raising the number of Germans under arms. Pistols and in many cases rifles were issued to some 60,000 so-called "auxiliary Prussian police" made up as follows: 50% ordinary troopers from the Nazi Sturmabteilung; 30% picked Nazi shock troops from the Schutzstaffel, Hitler's Praetorian Guard; 20% members of the Stahlhelm ("Steel Helmets"), War veterans' association whose leader is Minister of Labor Herr Franz Seldte, rich bottler of soda water. With astounding boldness the State ordered that men drafted as "auxiliaries" while holding jobs...
...first important title prizefight for 19 years, held last week, were Young Corbett (Raffaele Giordano of Fresno, Calif.) and Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein of Chicago) who won the welterweight championship three years ago, lost it to young Jack Thompson, won it back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with a right jab and a left...
...Gobi fascinates him. Occasionally it makes him poetize. Writes he toward the end of his narrative: "Wandering over the brick-red sediments all of us eventually arrived at an isolated cone-shaped butte. From its low summit we looked down upon a relief map of rounded hillocks, tiny flat plains and miniature ravines. Almost every inch was covered with animal footprints...
...slight, cropped-haired person in a red brocaded dress. But Eunice Norton compassed it all neatly. Her fingers traveled easily and accurately through Bach's E Minor French Suite, clearly traced its complicated, interweaving patterns. The Andante from Weber's lovely, slightly faded A Flat Sonata was played with a tenderness surprising in a young person who by temperament seemed better suited to the brittle, contrapuntal ways of Hindemith...