Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gets on to Harbin, where Aunt Teresa's ménage soon follows. Funds have ceased coming from her brother Lucy in Krasnoyarsk. The Vanderflints are indignant; Lucy writes it was the Bolsheviki; they don't believe him. In Harbin, they all infest a duchess's flat, loaned. Georges and Sylvia are caught kissing. Aunt Teresa is delighted; they shall marry. They are delighted...
...Paris saw the horses, after the usual momentary tangle, clear away from the web; they reached the first turn. Suddenly, out of the pack, reared a riderless steed, flat-eared, plunging; many women screamed shrilly; what had happened became, in a moment, obvious. Four horses had gone down. Four small men in silks lay twisting on the turf while the field swept past them, led home by Baron James A. De Rothschild's La Reine Lumière, 120 to 1, the first filly to win the Grand Prix since 1902. One of the three men was Stephen Donoghue...
...with all this done and learned, life still lay flat and unpalatable on Swedenborg's tongue. He sought, like Paracelsus, the infinite and the spiritual ; and neither geometrical, nor physical, nor metaphysical principles led him to them. But they must be found. And so to work on a new path. Then, in 1745, "heaven was opened to him" by direct spiritual revelation from...
...Pacific were holding their usual stately parade into Laguna Beach, Calif. Luxuriating on the sands lay seminaked figures, brown with bathing, supple with youth, ripple-thewed from exercise. Watching the rollers lazily, the loafing ones would watch little figures scooting shoreward at the forefoot of a comber, lying flat in the foam or poised excitingly erect on flying surf boards...
...taxes totaled $703,962,165 (as compared to $861,057,308 the year previous). The decrease was due to the flat reduction of 25% made in that year's taxes...