Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol restaurant.* Likewise as custom requires, the pages gave the Vice President a Christmas present. Page Philip J. ("Peewee") Bassford passed to Vice President Curtis an enormous wooden gavel with the statement: "We have christened this gavel 'Discipline' and it is guaranteed to mash 'em flat...
Boston: last year, with flat-faced Eddie ("Shining") Shore tossing puck-carriers off his wide hips on the defense, snaking through the opposition when he cared to take the puck, the Boston team swept the board all season but were mysteriously by the Canadiens in the playoffs. Now Shore is quieter; his team has a slight edge in the American group, nothing more...
...Greenleaf and Rudolph, with the crowd banked around them, bent over a green baize table in the finals of the national pocket billiards championship. They played the kind of pocket billiards that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls on the table - exactly the number Greenleaf...
Congress was last week asked to pass a measure allowing corporations to deduct from their income tax all sums which they give for charitable, social-welfare or unemployment-relief purposes. Individuals already have this exemption. Corporations heretofore have been forbidden it. They pay a flat 12% income tax, whereas individuals pay up to 25%. If Congress passes the bill, a likely thing, it will be the greatest boost organized charity has received for a long time. For, although Chairman Hawley of the House Ways & Means Committee introduced the resolution to Congress, the push to enactment really began with James Herbert...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...