Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...luxe Geneva hotels, had only $30,000 left of Congress's appropriation. Because of the U. S. elections they dared not ask for more. Acting Chief Delegate Hugh R. Wilson, Minister to Switzerland, moved the U. S. Delegation offices last week from the sumptuous Hotel des Bergues into a flat just under the attic at No. 33 Quai Woodrow Wilson...
...pitch. The super-Ile de France, expected to maiden-voyage in 1934. will be the world's biggest and fastest liner. Her plans call for a displacement of over 75,000 tons, a speed sufficient to drive her from Manhattan to Havre in four and a half days flat...
...wise, had been married three years to Joseph Pollak, back-of-the-stockyards bootlegger and money lender. She suspected him of philandering with a Mrs. Julia Cebulski. One afternoon last July Mrs. Pollak was unable to locate either her husband or Mrs. Cebulski. When her husband returned to the flat that evening she shot him. Said she afterward: "That was a dirty trick I did to poor...
...universities, is constantly getting them mixed up. A turn-of-the-century diplomat, Author Baring says he found the diplomatic service split from top to bottom over the question "as to whether papers should be kept folded, as had been the habit in the 18th Century, or flat." When the more modern school seemed to have won out, "a certain Ambassador of the Old School was appointed . . . and had them all refolded again? the work of several months...
Across the valley from ''Taliesin" was the Hillside School, established by Frank Lloyd Wright's aunts, built by him. He has restored its one big building of native stone laid flat. He will hire a faculty of a director, three assistant sculptors, a painter, a musician and several industrial technicians. Opening in October, the Taliesin Fellowship will have room for 70 apprentices at a little over $500 yearly apiece. Among them will be Manhattan Sculptress Lucienne Bloch, Peiping Architect Yen Liang and Vischer Boyd, son of a Philadelphia architect...