Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to it. At the end of the second act you will hardly be able to wait until you reach the lobby to give your own special version of it. And when you go home (the play has threoacts), the left hind wheel of the trolley, which will be flat, will rhythmically impress that tune on your soul, if you have one, for ever and ever...
...cases arising in his social clinic, with strong but never revolutionary suggestions to society at large. But last week, when the February Red Book reached newsstands, Judge Lindsey laid before the country his creed. First popular U. S. sociologist of national reputation to do so, Judge Lindsey came out flat-footed for 1) trial or "companionate" marriage; 2) birth control...
...family said that if I did not marry Mr. Lewis they would shoot me. ... I told the parson to be quick and get it over with. So we were married and I threw the ring at him at the church door and left him flat...
Significance. Le Matin and the Herald Tribune printed flat denials of their expose by officials of the British Foreign Office, side by side with the expose itself. The question of real significance is not whether the charges are true .or false, but whether any League member state will attempt to secure denunciation of the Treaty of Tirana when it is deposited with the League of Nations. If that point is raised, and if Great Britain stands behind Italy in quashing denunciation, the drift of events will be sufficiently clear...
Frederic Cayley-Robinson was chiefly distinguished in water colors; his "Foster Mother" shows in oil the earlier field. It is very flat, very delicate and not a portrait, but a silent, taking study of a homely cottage interior. The peasant foster mother sews by a window, a ten-year-old girl sitting on the floor beside her. Before a fireplace are two tiny lambs. Sheep traverse a snowy field beyond the window. One hears the hush...