Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instantly. The man beside him crumpled up mortally wounded. Of the two men in the rear seat one writhed with a shattered leg, the other was barely hurt. Before the occupants of the other cars could reach their friends, a second shell, which did little damage, threw them flat on their faces...
...beginning this year's dogfight, the government and big business, with labor sandwiched somewhere in between, have sounded the note of war. The Administration, which should, because of its position, be acquainted with the virtues of tact and temperance, has obviously blown its trumpet too hard and very flat. On the other side, both business and labor have shown by their utterances that they, too, are not entering into this eternal triangle with a clear, calm, and impartial mind. If the government is not always right, neither is labor, nor business itself. There is a lesson of caution...
...Senate seat. Farouk refused to confirm the Cabinet's selection and the thwarted Premier again backed down, agreed to nominate a candidate neutral in the controversy. Last week the bickering came to a head with both King and Cabinet in a bellicose mood. The Cabinet sent Farouk a flat demand that he sign a bill recently passed by Parliament allowing the Premier to distribute, without accounting for, some $195,000 in secret funds for suppression of foreign propaganda...
...finds little honor among thieves, joins the Navy. Meanwhile, a dark-eyed benefactress (Kathleen Burke) pretties up one of the tenements, brightens the lives of the boy's down-at-heels father (Guy Usher), his toneless, defeated mother (Marjorie Main) and the little girl in the next flat (Maureen O'Connor), who sings pathetic songs in the voice of a younger, fresher Helen Morgan. Actress Main won wide acclaim for her portrayal of "Babyface" Martin's mother in the stage and screen versions of Dead End. Cinema newcomer Maureen O'Connor is a radio veteran...
...worms. He and the gas are taken to Geneva and used to make a war. If poison gas were a more humorous subject, the play might have been better. On its own or in other surroundings Paul Haakon's "Hero Ballet" might have been brilliant. But it is flat in an Ed Wynn show...