Word: flatnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some Baptist women wondered whether their church was entirely fortunate. Certainly young Mr. Fosdick was nothing to look at ?his face was paunchy, his black knitted* hair gave an unkempt appearance. His voice, too, retained the flat tones, the slightly nasal twang of upstate New York. There was nothing about his person suggesting the aesthete. These, however, were trifles. There were more serious causes of offence?for example, he was perpetually stepping on the toes of U. S. sentimentality. And he often refused to come to the .telephone when he had retired to his study. But much was forgiven...
...matter of fact the hue and cry over a "bread trust" has fallen rather flat, despite Mr. Manly's | vigorous assertions. A huge number of U. S. housewives still bake their own bread, and this will always be a ready alternative to buying of an extortionate "bread trust...
Last week, the Interstate Commerce Commission denied a petition for a 10% flat reduction on anthracite coal freight rates-something which the miners had asked as an aid to getting their wage increase without cost to consumers. But the Commission did order reductions in the rates on soft coal of the "smokeless," low-volatile variety-one of the substitutes for anthracite...
...past week in Morocco (TIME, May 11 et seq.) began by a flat rejection by the French and Spanish of Abd-el-Krim's demand that peace negotiations must be preceded by unqualified recognition of the Riff area as an independent and sovereign State...
Author Ludovici imputes to Feminists aspirations to "rise above sex" into flat-breasted, man-scorning, virginal creatures tasing only the joys of disembodied spirits and reproducing their kind first by artificial fertilization and Caesarean sections, ultimately by ectogenesis (germs extracted, united, placed in incubator), for which only a small stud of docile males (1 to 2,000 females) would be needed and permitted to survive...