Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including part of the right bank of the strategic Saar River (tributary of the Moselle), but they did not yet go up against the firm ramparts of the Westwall. It was unlikely they would do so before the French artillery-ponderous 155-mm. howitzers lobbing shells from far behind; flat-shooting 755 moving up into the cleared area-have pounded at the Wall forts for many days. The concrete fortresses of the Maginot Line are 150 ft. deep in some places and hard as flint. French hope was that the Westwall concrete, poured more hastily, can be pulverized by France...
...Scheh, a Brooklyn high-school stenography teacher, who had an adventure to report to her pupils when she faced them bright & early one morning this week. Having spent the summer traveling alone in Iran and Iraq, Miss Scheh arrived in Italy with a return steamship ticket and a flat purse. Her ship developed "engine trouble," failed to sail. So did other ships to which the Italian Line transferred her. Unable to get either passage or refund from the Italian Line, she hurried to Havre and laid siege to the U. S. Lines office. After ten hours, company officials surrendered, signed...
After a second day of this run on commodities retailers rubbed their hands. By close of business on the third day, they did not think it was fun. They roared orders at wholesalers for more sugar, flour, canned goods. Wholesalers, caught flat-footed by the rush of business, found themselves short of delivery trucks, soon found their stocks of sugar and flour near exhaustion...
...large. Ahead of and just below him were four bank robbers. Last week G-Men in Chicago caught his successor in No. 4 position: Joseph Paul Cretzer, a mustached punkaroo who has been popping in & out of western jails since 1927. Arrested with him in a dreary Chicago flat was his wife, Edna May ("Teddy") Cretzer, who pinked a police-man during a getaway last June...
...Marsh the literary great seem to generate no spark. Strangely flat are his reminiscences of Anatole France, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton and A. E. Housman to whom Marsh credits this Regents Board bettering of Wordsworth: First Don: 0 cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice...