Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When his Congressional lieutenants left the White House three weeks ago after boldly talking back to the President on the subject of economy, they thought they were leaving him favorably disposed toward Senator Byrnes's proposal of a flat 10% cut in all appropriations except fixed charges (interest on public debt, veterans' pensions, Government contracts). But on the eve of the President's departure for Texas and tarpon, Missouri's Clarence Cannon, the senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, paid a White House visit. Returning to the Capitol, he promptly sponsored a 132-word resolution...
...spend $150,000 on: 1) support of Dr. Schwartz's gait laboratory; 2) maintenance of an extension gait laboratory in its own factory; 3) manufacture of what Dr. Schwartz calls "balance-in-motion" shoes which "compel the wearer to walk naturally." When properly fitted, "they correct flat feet, obliterate bunions and callouses, alleviate sacroiliac pain, and actually, in certain cases, cure mental derangements by removing strains from the muscles and tendons of locomotion...
...Flat feet, according to Dr. Schwartz, are usually due to malalignment of the heel bone with the tibia (larger of the two long bones in the lower leg). Side swing of the heel throws all the muscles and tendons of the foot out of balance. "Since the tendons act as slings for the 26 bones of the foot," reasons Dr. Schwartz, "those bones then have a tendency to slip out of their anatomical arrangement...
When receiving nose drops, all children should lie flat on the back and remain there for a few moments while the mucous membranes absorb the medication...
...young teacher in San Francisco's dismal Tar Flat section named Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) made the kindergarten popular in one of her first tales, The Story of Patsy. When the Atlantic Monthly damned the kindergarten as "a joy saloon," spunky Miss Wiggin flashed: "I like the name. Anyone who has seen, as I have, the dreary tenement rooms in which many children live would be glad to give them little tipples of joy." [Another generous early patron was Boston's Mrs. Quincy Shaw, who at one time kept 30 kindergartens going. Once a youngster...