Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually did pull the trigger that resulted in Kahahawai's death. If the young husband who held the gun and did not recall firing it could be cleared by the jury, the case against the other three defendants in no way linked to the shooting would also fall flat...
...Goldsborough bill. Their objections were similar: the Federal Reserve was now doing all it could to support the commodity markets; by itself it could not execute such a legislative mandate. Declared plump Governor Meyer: "I would not want to be peremptorily ordered to run 100 yards in ten seconds flat." The Federal Reserve, according to its chief, was now "holding the line" and "if you can hold the line, you can turn it eventually...
Last September three notorious Republicans of Illinois journeyed to flat, sun-baked Kankakee, site of the State Insane Asylum, on high political business. One was William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson whom Chicago had booted out as its profligate Mayor the spring before. Another was William Lorimer, expelled in 1912 from the U. S. Senate for employing "corrupt methods and practices in his election." The third was Frank Leslie Smith, barred in 1928 from the U. S. Senate for excessive campaign expenditures. In Kankakee this trio, with many a rowdy follower, called on buck-toothed old Lennington Small, twice...
...Communists turned out and voted for their "Red Napoleon," leather-lunged Comrade Ernst Thalmann (TIME, March 21). Last week, since everyone knew that Comrade Thalmann had not the ghost of a chance, more than a million German Reds prudently wasted no time in voting, left their Red Napoleon punctured flat and with only 3,706,388 ballots...
...elephant in the show. Mr. Coolidge nodded his head, went to see for himself. He discovered that the sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirunga leoninus or patagonica), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis, hind limbs so rudimentary that they look like a big tail; broad, flat for ward flippers for swimming and spanking the young. For Mr. Coolidge's pleasure Goliath I devoured 50 Ib. of herring. Six months later a shark got into his enclosure off Sarasota. bit a piece out of his neck, probably caused his death...