Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Banks, insurance companies and corporations in receivership would be taxed a flat 15% of net income...
...took the second fence from the finish last week, one of his reins broke near the bit. The part of the crowd of 250,000 that was standing near the finish saw the Hon. Anthony Mildmay steer his father's horse desperately over the jump, but on the flat again Davy Jones veered sharply, ran off the course...
...Jersey's Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett was asked to pass on the propriety of a barroom Venus that had outraged the sensibilities of a passing minister's wife. After personal inspection, Commissioner Burnett wrote to the complainant: "The painting is mediocre, the color flat, the style eclectic and the subject trite. I am not concerned, however, with artistry or the lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene' should...
...played by Hal Kemp and his usually lively band, Brunswick's Gloomy Sunday wallows dismally along in E flat minor, the dirge effect enhanced by a pair of French horns, and ends with a coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that...
Last week, having rounded out a twelve-month rise without serious interruption, the stockmarket paused for breath. The first anniversary of the Roosevelt bull market passed with no such elated demonstration as that which carried the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages to a flat 300 on the last trading day of 1928. Indeed, the peak of the present rise was registered two weeks before when the averages touched 158.7, a clear gain of 64% from the 1935 low of 96.7. The Dow-Jones railroad stock average showed an even more spectacular gain for the year-85%. Largely because they...