Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upper west side flat two young criminals had been cornered with the aid of tips by one of their girl friends and a taxi driver. They were undersized Francis Crowley, 19year-old lather, and Rudolph Duringer, 220-lb. truck driver. Duringer confessed that he had killed a red-headed dance hall hostess in a moment of drunken jealousy. Crowley, wanted for auto stealing and robbery, had shot down a Long Island policeman who approached while he was parked with his girl in a dark lane...
...Utah the new tax law works on a sliding scale up to 4% on net incomes over $9,000. The Idaho law scales up to 4% on incomes over $6,000. In Vermont earned incomes are taxed at the flat rate of 2%, unearned incomes at 4%. Exemptions range from $1,000 up. Revision of income tax law tending toward higher rates occurred in Oklahoma, Oregon, Missouri, Georgia. In Illinois the Senate sent an income tax bill to the House, despite the warning of constitutional experts that such a levy was unconstitutional in that State...
...great and shrewd old Empire builder, to the man with a brain so extensive that the top of his head is somewhat flat, to Hubert Marshal Lyautey there came four years ago an appropriately flattering offer...
...most interesting case. Infestation with flukes is an oriental disease rarely seen in the U. S. Doctors probed their text books. Internes peeked at the pallid patient. Messages went to Dr. Horace Wesley Stunkard of New York University, authority on those flat, leaflike worms called flukes. Reporters learned to spell accurately trematode, clonorchis. Ralph H. Thurber made fine human-interest copy. That he was a minister diseased for the Gospel's sake added poignancy...
...masterpiece of popular appeal. For modern cinemaseers it is an interesting though somewhat gloomy curio, worth-while for John Barrymore's tricks. It is beautifully staged. Typical shot: Barrymore dying as he makes a last effort to hypnotize Trilby, while she, feeling his influence fail, goes flat on a high note of "Ben Bolt...