Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Miss Miller said that she had given Pupil Potts "refuge from the police" at her London flat for several days. He told her of obtaining from Cambridge shops $3,000 worth of haberdashery on credit which he pawned "for money to live like a gentleman." When she last saw him, said Madge Miller, "poor Mr. Potts was on his way to make a clean breast of everything at Cambridge," and she understood that he intended to commit suicide...
Brahms' Quartet in B Flat, 3rd Movement (Victor, $2)?One of the last releases of the old Flonzaley combination which has yet to be excelled...
...singing in B flat but I'm a mile off." Thus waggishly, but with literal truth, spoke one member of a vaudeville duet team in Schenectady, N. Y., last week...
...twosome and one foursome. The English have never won a Walker Cup series since the trophy was put in competition (1922). Dressed in a red and brown tweed knicker suit, the Prince of Wales watched the matches, chatted with the players, imitated with satirical intention the waddle of a flat-footed British galleryite, went down on hands and knees an front of the gallery to see the putting better, chewed...
...make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits and-sits, oozes urbanity, overboiled coffee and Japanese prints, and almost succeeds in making the picture a bore. That it attains mediocrity instead of flat failure is due to the rest of the cast, notably William Boyd (not the William Boyd) who makes perhaps the smoothest gangster seen in these parts since the Wall Street Explosion. Paul Lukas as the flat foot causes one to wonder what, if anything, Law and Order is coming...