Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pitying the cinema has attained the proportions of a national pastime. Breathes there a man with brain so dead that he has not repudiated those curly co-eds eating ice-cream cones on the campus; those red-blooded "Society folk" with midnight bathing parties; those flat-footed vampires; Will Hays? In denizens of the greater metropolis where journalistic criticism has reached the semi-intelligent stage this upturning of intellectual noses is comprehensible. But in our more rural citizens the attitude is not so easily defined...
...That there are inequalities in the wages paid to miners which really require a thorough revision of the entire wage scale?inequalities which were augmented by the recent Pinchot award of a flat 10% increase in wages...
Potash and Perlmutter. Abe and Mawruss-in anything that might be called the silent drama? Abe and Mawruss-toned down to the flat black-and-whiteness of the screen? It sounds as mournful as a sixth class French funeral, doesn't it? But, strangely enough, it isn't. Even shorn of actual speech Abe and Mawruss remain uproariously funny - the same vulgar, unctuous incredible immortals they were when they first sprang twin-Minervas of the cloak-and-suit trade from the brain of Montague Glass. The plot more or less follows the outline of the first Potash...
...Gate. For three minutes, 57 seconds of his time, Dempsey received $475,000. Firpo's three minutes, 47 seconds of consciousness netted him a flat $100,000. These generous sums were subscribed by about 80,000 paying guests among the 90,000 persons present. Promoter Rickard and the tax collectors enjoyed the remainder of his $1,082,593 gross receipts...
...home in a taxicab. There are 99-year leases of property; you can will a portion of your estate to your heirs on dying; there are first, second and third classes on railroads, and you have to pay fares on street cars. You can also lease your house or flat ? all of which is not exactly Communism. And the streets are clean and well policed; the people appear to be busy ; there is plenty of life on the streets...