Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style of the early 19th century, they remained totally impervious to the appraising stares of approximately 750,000 persons. Some of the twelve women had their children with them; some of them carried bundles. With the stolid determination of explorers or pioneers, they pursued their way through the flat lands of the Middle West, through the northern plains, through the Southwest...
...Bill. . . but there's one thing I have noticed about him. When he wants cake he wants it and he wants it now." William Randolph Hearst got into the House of Representatives for two terms (1903-07). His effort to be Democratic nominee for President in 1904 fell flat despite his reputed expenditure...
...that a change at the helm of State is overdue. As the New Year looms, it is pertinent to re-examine Stanley Baldwin. Policies. The Prime Minister's policies are that he is honest, broadly disinterested, hugely naive, and means well. To paint another man in such broad, flat colors would be to paint him out; but it is from the spaciousness of Mr. Baldwin's qualities that he draws his surprising strength...
...already done, the New York Advertising Club last week examined advertisements written by local pastors to explain "What the Church Has to Offer Men." The prize advertisement, written by Dr. Walter Russell Bowie, rector of Grace Church, Manhattan: "Without ideals, life is mean- "Without a purpose, it is flat- "Without inspiring power, it will fail. "The Church can give to men ideals, purposes, power. "In the lives of prophets and heroes and in the life of Jesus Christ, the Church holds up the ideals by which character and achievement must be measured. "In the call to help build the Kingdom...
...Nutley, N. J., a Mrs. Edward Kohler strolled along the sidewalk, leading her small daughter Marion, aged 5. Coming to a street crossing, Mrs. Kohler stepped off the sidewalk; an automobile struck her gently and knocked her flat...