Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Heflin's flat anti-Smith declaration was saved up until last week at Dothan, Ala., a town with a newspaper (the Eagle) which has said: "Oh Heflin . . . Oh Hell!" Cried the Senator, "I will vote against Al Smith, so help me God!" and exhausted most of his time with his well-known Anti-Catholic tirade...
...Many a flat joke was made about the next Congress not being "Ruthless" and about this being the campaign of the four Ruths, since Baseballer George Herman ("Babe") Ruth was stumping for the Brown Derby (see p. 9). The three ladies were...
...Royal field telegraphers, encamped some miles away near a tapped wire. So fervent were their calls for help that a motor cavalcade of doctors and nurses set out from Kampala, 200 miles distant, under the impression that the Heir Apparent was dying. They made the distance in six hours flat, over ghastly roads. They found H. R. H. sitting at the bedside of General Trotter, where he remained all night...
...windows of great shops buckled and burst, streets were strewn with clothing store dummies, some in fetching negligee. Citizens and policemen clung to lamp posts, or flung themselves flat and clung to gutters. Finally even the elite U. S. patrons of smart hotels along the Thames Embankment were made to choke and gasp with streaming eyes, as smoke and soot blew down the chimneys of their bedrooms' open hearths...
...Paderewski recorded Chopin's Preludes in D Flat and in A Flat. Perfectly recorded, intelligently played...