Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dayton, Ohio, a flat-bottomed boat which had seen service in the 1913 Dayton flood was put on exhibition with a sign: "THEY HELPED US IN 1913? LET'S HELP THEM...
...Herbert Atkinson Barker, whose name bonesetters use as incantation against the curses of "regular" doctors, reached Manhattan last week from Kingston, Jamaica. Yet few on the pier knew him to be the man who for 40 years has been unlimbering stiff knees, setting dislocated joints, curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...prominent as Coolidge" was ill? became the question. Did William Howard Taft have a dislocated shoulder, Charles Evans Hughes a stiff knee, Alfred Emanuel Smith a locked jaw, Will H. Hays flat feet? Questioning became a game; the game became boresome...
Chesapeake Bay lay flat and balmy, but corners of the sky looked ugly. Two Navy seaplanes, flying so high they looked like a pair of mating canvas backs, hummed over the reedy bays, bound for Hampton Roads from Philadelphia. Off New Point Comfort they slanted down. The sky was scowling, muttering. Angry lightnings flickered. The Bay began to hiss and crackle under a heavy downpour. The thunder raised its shouts to a cannonade...
...audiences go, there is little difference between the two countries. A flat joke is a flat joke wherever it is. Of course, these cocktail jokes in "Oh, Please!" would have to be changed to transport the show abroad, but aside from that it could go just about...