Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destroy taxation units, close schools and roads . . . throw more people out of their homes than the New York Governor could employ." According to Secretary Hyde the Roosevelt plan would cost $2,000,000,000, provide work for only 27,900 and break the market on forest products to "Nothing flat...
General Houses' homes will be, strictly speaking, made of steel. The frames will be of steel and so will the floors which will be of battle-deck construction. Insulation will make General Houses warm in winter, cool in summer. They will have flat, aluminum painted roofs, many windows. The exterior will be painted. By standardization of parts, numerous models and combinations of rooms can be offered. At present the company has approved various Fisher designs for five-room homes to cost around...
...Paddy Mack, Boston wrestler: a bout with one Mustapha Pasha; when a spectator tossed a lighted cigaret into Mustapha Pasha's open mouth, causing him to squeal, choke, lie flat on his back; in Hollywood...
...question, "Is the Experimental College a success?" Dr. Meiklejohn attempts no flat answer. In general, parents said yes. But Experimenter Meiklejohn and his Advisers, viewing it as an educational method, find the problem more difficult, content themselves with making observations, presenting recommendations to the University whose President Glenn Frank helped plan the College. Some observations...
...only child has just died, that she is going to pour out her heart to him, sole consolation of her miserable life. She starts pouring at the source, when, as a little girl she had watched R. move into an apartment across the hall from her family's flat. R. was so superior to anybody she had ever seen before, the women he brought home with him were so angelically bright, that the girl began to worship him. His doormat became sacred ground, his doorknob the shining star of love. Through thick & thin she pursued that star until, grown...