Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...province. Lady Astor passed the cablegram to the Soviet Literary & Educational Organization, host to the British party's tour. Next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter found Mrs. Krynine, dressed in blue cotton and canvas shoes, in a squalid, one-room, fourth-story Moscow flat. She said: "I am 48 and I want to live, but only if I can be with my son and husband." Professor Krynine said the Herald Tribune interview was the longest communication he had had from her in several years...
...used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt as if they had told me so much more than they said-as if I had actually got inside another person's skin." She likes Nebraska: "It's a queer thing about the flat country-it takes hold of you, or it leaves you perfectly cold. A great many people find it dull and monotonous; they like a church steeple, an old mill, a waterfall, country all touched up and furnished, like a German Christmas card. I go everywhere, I admire all kinds...
...grain trade proper, the President's statement brought forth only flat denials. The heads of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce asserted their records showed no excessive short trading. Wheat traders attributed low prices to these three factors: 1) the 200,000,000 bu. the Farm Board was still holding over the market; 2) this year's bumper crop, with its conse quent surplus, as reported by the Department of Agriculture; 3) reduced wheat consumption throughout the world because of hard times. Oldtime traders compared the President's outburst to the Secretary...
...Gandhi that if & when he goes to London to confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...
Half a dozen flat-faced Eskimos and a little group of sad-eyed arctic puffins sat on the bleak rocks of Myggbukta (Mosquito Bay), Greenland, recently while a party of five explorers, snug-buttoned in woolies, tacked the Norwegian flag to an improvised flagstaff. The event seemed of only passing interest to the Eskimos and the puffins, but when news of it broke last week all Scandinavia seethed...