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Word: flatly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girl. Like Bad Girl, it is a circumstantial story of middle-class domesticity, its falls and rises. But Author Young, Bachelor of Medicine, has not been so obstetrical as Authoress Delmar, mother. His scene too is larger, peopled by more characters. Whereas Bad Girl was a tempest in a flat, Mr. and Mrs. Pennington is heading straight for tragedy when Author Young's magic wand stops it, just in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Bad Girl | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...help when it came to women. Fidus Achates Spenlove supplied it. But in spite of him, Fraley's long and serious affair with a Manhattan girl went up in smoke. Then the War took them to the Mediterranean. In Salonika Fraley acquired a pleasant French mistress, Theroigne, left her flat when he saw her younger sister Francine. Francine was beautiful but had an ungovernable temper; when Theroigne tried to get Fraley back Francine knifed her. Because his British susceptibilities were offended, Fraley would not marry Francine after that, but they lived together when he was ashore, many turbulent years. Francine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Engine-Room Nestor | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

...Paris assisting, with Picasso and Braque, at the accouchement of cubism. Back in Mexico City he was the leading figure in a group of quasi-Communist artists who have become the leaders in the Mexican renaissance: Jose Clemente Orozco, Jean Chariot. Carlos Merida, Pachecho. They worked for a flat rate of $4 (eight pesos) a day and hired a plump little boy to bring them water and wash their brushes. The water boy was Miguel Covarrubias. now famed smartchart caricaturist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Square-foot Show | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...some of the Triplex inventory. The large Triplex plant at Clifton, N. J., will be resold to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. which will be given manufacturing licenses, will share Triplex's big Ford windshield contract with Libbey-Owens-Ford. Triplex agreed to remain out of the flat-and laminated-glass field for five years, retains the right to keep any damages that might be awarded to Triplex if its suits for patent infringement against Pittsburgh Plate Glass should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Triplex Sold | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...Duce proving he had been there (see cut). The late Sir Thomas Lipton took him racing on the Shamrock V and he watched King George's Britannia lose to them by a drifting length. Lloyd George drove him 45 miles to catch a train, in one hour flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Leg, Single Mind | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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