Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What galleries at Wimbledon and else where like most about Vines's game is its blinding speed. His cannonball serve, which a good many players frankly say they cannot see, his forehand, which he hits with a flat racket off his left foot, are, like all first-rate tennis accomplishments, based on years of tedious practice which mediocre players like to think they do not need. To make practice less tedious, Vines two years ago thought up a game called "Errors." If he was trying to im prove his backhand, his opponent gave him no other kind of shots. Vines...
...delegation, having obtained this flat British retraction, could do no more. When Chief U. S. Delegate Hugh S. Gibson again tried to get favorable action on President Hoover's proposal of Disarmament-By-One-Third (TIME, July 4), he was blocked by the French and British Delegations, as before. On the important disarmament issue a Franco-British "united front" was seen definitely to exist...
...Barney & Lover. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Humphreys and a jury of ten men & two women in Old Bailey appeared Mrs. Elvira Dolores Barney, accused of murdering her lover Thomas William Scott Stephen after a cocktail party in her West End flat. One dawn last month a physician, hastily summoned, found Mrs. Barney, whose husband is a U. S. radio crooner, anxiously kissing Stephen's cooling corpse. A revolver lay nearby. While Mrs. Barney awaited trial her father. Sir John Mullens, was reported to be liquidating the Mullens gems to raise the huge fee of her defender, lean...
Girandoles and red plush, champagne and rich grey caviar, pretty Moscow women and gay music-it is a long way from all that to a lonely flat in Cleveland, Ohio. So it seemed to Nikolai Semenoff. Born in Russia some 50 years ago. he had entered the Imperial Ballet School at 8. In the Imperial Ballet, and in the triumphally trouping Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution...
...nostalgic childhood reminiscences Author Mackenzie takes his readers the length of a Victorian London street, introduces them to as engaging a troupe of well-to-do householders as ever went to market to buy fat pigs. Memories of their sooty black houses, architecturally linear and flat, are prettily three-dimensionalized by little whirlwinds of domestic perturbations spiralling, like smoke from the chimney-pots, above every roof...