Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself so hard pressed that he adopted arriving measures. The first was to send out river workers and peasants to pick up the dead, bloated bodies of soldiers who constantly floated downstream from obscure engagements above. The corpses were searched for cartridges and small arms, General Ho paying a flat rate of $10 for every pistol or hundred cartridges recovered. "Some peasants are making $100 a day," cabled a U. S. eyewitness...
...Father of Victory, will soon be installed as curator of a "Clémenceau Museum." Funds are rapidly being raised. Checks are mailed to the Clémenceau estates executor. M. Nicolas Pietri, at the Chamber of Deputies. The "museum" will be either the three-room, ground floor flat at No. 8 Rue Franklin, Paris, where the Tiger worked and died, or the tiny, one-story stone house with a partly thatched roof in the Vendee, where he worked and summered. Both flat and house were rented. Both will be bought, if the owners' prices are not too dear...
Claire Adams depicts the Jobian trials of a young newspaperman who is persuaded by his bride to leave spacious Waco, Tex., for a one-room flat in Manhattan. The city's restless vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need of sleep. Meanwhile his wife experiments with a wealthy fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned...
...strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
...lose a certain amount on the dining halls for the first few years, at least. After all, if the dining Halls cannot compete on a free basis with the other restaurants in Cambridge, there does not seem to be much point in giving them the protective tariff of a flat charge per week. While they are still in the infant industry class protection in the form of University subsidy seems much more advisable in that it will not antagonize any potential users of the Halls by the noxious element of compulsion. If after several years experiment on this basis...