Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coats: "The trained eye is caught at once by the rare lapels of the royal coats. Often these sections are hard and flat; but in the King's coats they turn over gently like a leaf or the petals of a flower...
Schubert--Trio, B flat...
...Anti-Saloon League that must have made Wayne B. Wheeler revolve in his Ohio grave. Over the most potent prohibiting force in the U. S., the Republican House machine rolled to the tune of 240 to 141, leaving the League, for the first time since the 18th Amendment, flat and broken by the legislative wayside...
...death of Colonel Miller (father of the Miller brothers) the family was, as Zack Miller remarked, "flat as the prairie." Once it had been a great cattle family. In 1880, old Colonel Miller had built the first barb wire fence in the district. But the very necessity for a barb wire fence was an indication that the old free days were passing. In 1893 the district, opened to homesteaders, began to change from a cattle to a farming region. The old Colonel continued to raise nothing but cattle, ran into the Panic of the '90's, crashed...
Chauve-Souris, internationally applauded Russian "Bat Theatre," has this year gone stale, sterile, incredibly flat...