Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transport planes and air clippers which now roar in and out of the two cities. For readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their own power on "magnetic refractor shoes." In the accompanying text a German professor is credited with...
Saint Lydwina of Holland, when a sickly virgin of 15, was persuaded in the winter of 1395 to rise from her sickbed and go skating upon the ice. No sooner had she ventured out on her runners than a rude young woman crashed into her, knocked her flat and broke her rib. "With unimaginable wailing of virgins," St. Lydwina was carried back to bed where she remained for the next 38 years in constant agony, relieved only by angelic visions...
...whole, the program at the Loew's State and Loew's Orpheum this week is pretty flat. William Powell, Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery are amusing enough in "The Last of Mrs. Cheyney," of course, but the companion piece, a thing called "Dangerous Number," is nothing less than colossal, daring and stupendous in its badness. And the second feature detracts from the first...
...most amazing bouts of Wednesday afternoon; for there Lou Bachrach, pitted against Johnny Reese, pounded away at his opponent's stomach with a powerful left all through the first round; then in the second he stepped into the ring and floored Reese in just two seconds flat with a right to the head that Johnny was not in any way prepared for. John McClure, a Varsity squadman with a long reach, and Bob Shepard, a Yardling who won his opening match with a display of good skillful boxing, will be in there with Bachrach...
...something with a "Y-front," presumably for Yale men, which protects squirmers from becoming "nervous nonentities" and "makes sitting a joy." Soon comes Mr. 1937 stepping out in "the new order of the day in next-to-body wear for men," which for a nominal fee gives you "a flat midriff and a military swing...