Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accomplished in a number of ways. . . . Probably the manner of attaching the horizontal bar to the upright stick was such that, while supporting the Yogi, the bar could still be caused by vibration, to slide intermittently down the pole. To illustrate this process, take a round stick and a flat stick with a hole in one end the size of the cross-section of the round stick; slip the hole of the flat stick over the round stick, and attach a weight to the other end of the flat stick. The round stick, held vertically, will then support the flat...
June 23 the birthday of His Majesty occasioned feature articles throughout the world, the conservative New York Herald Tribune dubbing him "The Streamlined King" after alluding respectfully to His Majesty's "flat stomach" and weight...
...thoroughly modernized version of the Mary Pickford classic of 1916, The Poor Little Rich Girl depicts its peewee heiress-heroine wandering away from her father's mansion, following an organ grinder to his basement flat, making friends with the vaudeville actors who live upstairs, joining their act which turns out to be a smash hit on the radio hour of the crotchety soap manufacturer who is her father's business rival. Shirley is absent from the screen in only six sequences, foots neatly through three dance numbers, sings You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby...
...world's record for 440 yd. is 46 plus seconds, and for 100 yd., 9.4 seconds. Let's assume that he ran the first 440 yd. in 46 seconds flat, and the next 100 yd. in an even nine seconds. He would then have covered 540 yd. in 53 seconds, leaving him three seconds to cover the last...
Born inappropriately in Boston, Dexter William Fellows was named after a race horse and a favorite uncle. Like every small boy he fell flat under the spell of his first circus; unlike others, he never recovered. When, barely grown up, he got a chance to join Pawnee Bill's "Historic Wild West" as pressagent, he jumped at it with both feet. Once in his niche, he was never tempted to seek a higher pinnacle. The late Ivy Lee, then a hard-working but undistinguished Manhattan newshawk, gave Fellows the benefit of his own ambitious advice about becoming a tycoon...