Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...before, seasoned "salts" had noted two curious phenomena. In a flat calm, monster oily waves swept up to the beach, boomed hollowly like bushmen's drums. This was the "dead" swell caused by heavy weather no great distance away. The other occurrence, more inexplicable, was the leaping of porpoises,* long considered by seamen a storm augury. Seasoned "salts" had sought shelter...
...Doubleday, Page & Co. are the publishers, but are not responsible in case of suit over any fiction because of a flat guarantee required of authors that their work contains nothing libelous or so indecent as to outrage public morals. Author Ferber was sued some years ago by her onetime landlady in Chicago, who claimed damages for her portrayal as a drab character...
...William Alexander Kinglake, famed British 19th century explorer lusciously described Damascus in his Eothen: "Close along on the Abanah river's edge through seven sweet miles of rustling boughs and superb shade, the city spreads her whole length as a man falls flat, face forward, in the brook that he may drink and drink again; so Damascus, thirsty forever, lies down with her lips to the stream and clings to its rustling waters." Tradition ascribes to Damascus the title "oldest city in the world...
...running trousers, dashed a mile in the Municipal Stadium, leading by ten yards Mr. Grinley of the Otis Elevator Company. A few moments later the crowd roared the name of V. Biesiakiewicz, roadman for Wanamaker's as he romped over the 220-yard hurdles in 0:27 flat. Smith, an elevator man, won the broad jump as he had been expected to, with Biesiakiewicz third; the Brooklyn Edison Company took the medley race; one R. Jeha of the Reliance Insurance Company upset all predictions by jumping higher than anybody else. To John Wanamaker's a point score...
...another week of portents. Its atmosphere troubled by sunspots, its crust similarly affected and adjusting itself to isostasy (equilibrium), Earth underwent varied disturbances. At Ridgefield, N. J., the black cone of a cyclone descended upon a lumber factory, swept a big church flat as a card house, ripped through houses, garages. It flooded streets, visited three neighboring towns in its line, then rushed out over the Atlantic. The same evening- On Long Island, along the south shore, the populace marveled at huge bars of blue and yellow light rocketing through the sky-a violent freak electric storm. A little later...