Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Border Patrolman Cheatham had been chasing Gordon through the woods, whither he had fled when U. S. agents had forced his car into a ditch on the highway. Patrolman Cheatham had "fallen flat over a rock," struck his elbow on a stone, discharged the rifle he was carrying. Getting up, going on, he had come upon Gordon, shot in the back, dying...
...Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...
...John" as an excuse to escape from his wife of nights. When a burglar is caught by the wife and poses as "Uncle John" there is a great deal of embarrassment all around, no small part of which is genuine, shared by actors and audience for a play both flat and flimsy...
...blooded animals, decompose rapidly after removal from their watery homes. To be transported, they must be frozen. Of several fish-freezing methods, the Taylor Process is speediest. The fish are docked, bathed, chopped up, unedible portions being removed and fillets (steaks) left. Then the fillets are put on a flat aluminum plate, on which they travel slowly through the freezing room, like amusement park visitors riding on a scenic railway. Interesting, too, is the scenery, as the walls and ceiling are covered with glittering stalactite formations. But the aluminum boat travels not over water but over calcium chloride...
...almost needless and completely useless to say that this book is as slight, irrelevant and disappointing an approach to a noble theme that we have ever read. There is no depth, no irony, only a flat-chested humor of the most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really...