Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manner of every scribbler for "woodpulp publications", garnished previously with a touch of sauciness and rather new spice. We say "previously" advisedly; for as has been hinted, his "Tales" fall below even the standard set by "Flappers" et al.; the sauciness has run dry and the spice become flat and tasteless. The "Tales" show a marked weakening. Fitzgerald went up like a rocket; but now that he has reached his apex and is in danger of descending like the stick, he should spare himself and his public any further humiliation...
...this aside as fantastic, imaginative, and utterly impossible. But was not the world a flat surface until the year 1492 A. D.? It was only then that men became first aware that the straight line of the earth's surface was curved, and that a man could return to his starting-point simply by continuing far enough in what appeared to be a straight lien. Why is it not equally sensible to believe that a man might literally regain his second childhood if he could live long enough? It is relatively certain that America was discovered long before Adam...
Miss Genevieve Hamper did her best with the flat-chested part of Julie, making it a little more than bearable but less than convincing. The rest of the cast was negligible. A one-man play is this, but it was never intended to be done by a supporting company that found verse difficult to say, and more difficult to make heard. Too often did the minor players leave the stage with a racking stage laugh that chilled the spectator, and gave him a sense that they were pleased to have done for the moment with their share in the production...
...records of nearly all the great revolutions and intra-national struggles emphasized in Political History, from even before the time of the French Revolution to the Russian upheaval of the present day, the issuing of paper flat money and its subsequent redemption occupy an outstanding position. The solution of such financial difficulties as are occasioned by the too extensive issuing of inconvertible paper money has generally been found either in complete abrogation of its value or in reduction at a premium from a paper currency to a specie basis. Such was the case with the French assignats...
...Lafayette will be the ruling favorite partly on account of Kirksey's injury and partly because of Leconey's perform-performances this year. Last season the finish between these two was so close that many spectators thought the Lafayette flyer had won and this year he has equalled ten flat twice and has captured one race in 9 7-10 seconds. While Leconey is the favorite, Woodring of Syracuse, Hutchinson of California, and Lever of Pennsylvania who placed-third, fourth, and fifth respectively last year are entered and may upset predictions. Lovejoy of Cornell, Hartranft, Stanford's great weight...