Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Artist Brown draws as he talks, crudely, positively, in a manner that admits of no erasures, no changes. He applies color in broad flat washes. Critics find his matter pleasing, his manner undeveloped. They take refuge in the safe expression, "promising...
Sudden Awakening: "Flat Tire!" In the Palais-Bourbon, imposing seat of French Deputies, foes of sly old Br'er Briand thought they had sufficiently prepared to roast him when the Chamber convened last week...
Colyumist Gibbons, 43, younger-looking, bulky, flat-nosed, wears a white linen patch over his left-eye socket. The eye was shot out by a machine gun at Chateau-Thierry. When he broadcasts he rushes into the studio at the last minute, tosses his coat aside, keeps his hat on, sits down at a table with cigaret in hand and rattles off 217 words per minute...
...pugs, whom she then deprives of manhood and the possibility of winning championships. Like most girls of fiction she is young (19), beautiful, fatally alluring. Babe sees "Bearcat" Delaney in action, covets him, gets him, even marries him for a while. When the money is gone she leaves him flat, goes back to Harlem and joins the dope-peddling racket. After hours she has a high old time with "Money" Johnson, Negro gambling tycoon, then with Wayne Bald win, Manhattan socialite. She tricks all her three steadies almost simultaneously, is the cause of Baldwin's shooting Johnson, gets Bearcat...
...seasonable and spicy appetizer, many a hearty pièce de résistance. Like its author's conversation these recipes are blunt but pointed, dipped in the salty wit of good sense. Unusual among politicians. Dr. Browne says what he thinks; unique among cookbook authors, he gives many a flat decision on moot questions of food & drink. "Beaten biscuits are biscuits horribly beaten before they are cooked and may be used as golf-balls afterward.'' Of a Clover Club cocktail he says, "It's an awful mixture"; but tells how to make it and adds: "This will make three cocktails...