Word: flatly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cots in the centre of the rink. They eat six meals and take three urine tests a day to satisfy health officials that they are not too exhausted. Their skates, provided free, have maple wheels- By last week, the Roller Derby's repair shop had rounded 1,400 flat wheels. During the race, "jams" & sprints for small prizes are encouraged. When a contestant is injured a siren stops the jam, the contestant's teammate takes the track. Most serious fall in Chicago's current Roller Derby occurred last week when a Mrs. Albie Whitney crashed into...
Accordingly, the proposition was submitted secretly to the Allies, got a prompt, flat rejection from Foreign Secretary Grey. Aggrieved, Secretary Lansing wrote to the President: "It seems to me that the British Government expected us to denounce submarine warfare as inhuman and to deny the right to use submarines in at tacking commercial vessels; and that these statements by Sir Edward Grey evidence his great disappointment that we have failed to be the instrument to save Britishcommerce from attack by Germany. . . ." By April, Allied rejection of the U. S. proposal was unanimous and had been docilely accepted by Secretary Lansing...
Presently, at about 6:30 p. m., the plane landed at Memphis. Out got three passengers, and in got three more. Aboard too, climbed a new crew of three, including oldtime Pilot Jerry Marshall. At 7:03 p. m. The Southerner took off with 17 aboard, headed out over flat, sparsely-settled country toward Little Rock...
...judges his own sentences by that echo. An optimist from the word go - enemies say he even jumped the gun - Author Sinclair early joined battle with his life-long foe, Determinism. Xo philosopher nor theologian but a prophet of sweetness & light, he thus bids Apollyon scat : "It leaves you flat, and it leaves every human being flat, and the thing for us to do is to go ahead and forget it as a piece of silly nonsense. . . . The only thing you can do with an unchangeable sequence of causes and effects is to let it alone...
...Peter Cooper Hewitt to produce her, Ann Cooper Hewitt last week made the following affidavit, which was promptly confirmed by oldtime San Franciscans: "While my mother has always boasted of her Southern aristocracy, she was the daughter . . . of a horsecar driver in San Francisco who lived in a flat over a corner grocery store when she was a girl...