Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blas belles are short, squat, swart. In her broad, flat nose each wears a large gold ring...
...whom he has made his valet in lieu of pressing for payment of gaming losses. After three acts of this entertainment, one concludes that hokum is the same the whole world over. Sample lines given to the female character named Ly, who intrudes into the gambler's flat: "They called me the tiger cat?and they had good reason for it. ... So he's the master and you're the valet, eh? Life's queer sometimes...
Reader Helden is correct. It was Lippmann to Harcourt, Brace to Keynes to Strachey, the last part of the triple play resulting because Messrs. Keynes & Strachey shared a London flat at the time. Walter Lippmann is "rich" enough to have bought a commodious town house on Manhattan's East 61st St.-ED. Birth Control's Department Sirs: The inclusion, in the March 30 issue, of your article "Protestant Birth Control" under the heading Religion was perhaps necessitated by the lack of a more suitable column. It should be realized, however, that Birth Control, whether moral or immoral...
...place of a speedy miracle, Earl Musselman must slowly accommodate himself to a three-dimensional, colored world. He cannot yet gauge distances by angles and shadows. Everything seems flat. He must touch objects to perceive their spacial relationship. By & by, as his pupils (they are artificial) and his cleansed lenses learn to accommodate, he will be able to focus sights normally...
...smalltime sporting-club in Brooklyn, 2,000 representatives of the fertile social sediment in which prizefighting has its roots last week watched a preliminary bout between two light heavyweights. One was a shaky, timid Negro, the other a slow-footed, lumbering white man with a scarred face and a flat nose. In the first round, the Negro fell without being hit, then, in the second, took a left hook on the face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan sport...