Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gown Sir Boyd Merriman,* presiding in Court last week, fussed about, patiently searching for some peccadillo or infraction. A small one would testify to his conscientiousness and not impede dismissal of the intervention. Suddenly he fastened upon the fact that Mrs. Simpson, although she had a flat in London, got her decree nisi out at rural Ipswich. Last week the judge badgered her Empire-famed and highly paid counsel, Norman Birkett, K. C., upon this point...
Forty-five miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, Zion, Ill. was founded in 1901 as a theocratic community, along with the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, by famed, robust Dr. John Alexander Dowie. Two years ago Zion's General Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who believes the world is flat and lives...
...House rates at present are $9.25 for 21 meals, $7.75 for 14 meals, and $6.75 for 10 meals, while the Freshmen pay a flat rate of $8.50 for 21 meals. On an individual meal basis; breakfast costs $.35, lunch $.55, and dinner...
...Sears prevents that by making his patients chew like cows and sheep. He makes the surface of false bicuspids and molars practically flat, sets the bicuspids and first molars a little higher in their cases than the other false teeth, and a trifle offset. This compels the lower jaw to move straight up and down against the upper jaw, instead of in the natural scissors movement. The extra height of the middle teeth prevents Dr. Sears's patients from shutting their jaws completely. Only way to do that and to bite into food is to thrust out the lower...
...obviously unfitted to bring up a nervous child. Leni had to leave. Night before she was to go, the War broke out. The little doctor tried to rush Leni to a train to get her back to Germany; the bicycle on which both were riding got a flat tire; they missed the train and spent an innocent night in the fields. When they got to London they were arrested. Unfortunately for them, that same night Mrs. Newcome had taken an overdose of sleeping pills. It was an open-&-shut case. Before they were both hanged for Mrs. Newcome...