Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...career," and did it the hard way-amid the smoke, clatter and twirling bare legs of a Buffalo nightspot. One conscientious nightclub reporter, mindful of his duty toward an illustrious musical name, gravely noted in Tenor Caruso's version of the Flower Song from Carmen a tendency to "flat in the upper register." But everybody agreed, after hearing Caruso's What a Difference a Day Made, that his schmalz was terrific...
Conducted by George Brown, the orchestra will have Miss Nell Robin, Radcliffe '46, as the soloist. The program includes Mozart's Symphony number 39, Boccherini's Concerto in B flat for violoncello, Moussorgsky's Introduction to Khovantchina, and Johann Strauss' Overture to Die Fledermaus...
...long passages the voice flowed on, flat and didactic, as if it were weak and being nursed along: "The National Socialist State - our 2,000-year-old civilization -can neither be replaced by Bolshevism nor by democratic-p'utocratic ideology. . . . This nation . . . and its leading men are unshakable in their will and unswerving in their fanatical determination to fight this war to a successful conclusion...
...president James Edward Al mond well recalls, is a far cry from 1913, when the company was formed. A.C.B. began by setting up chambers of commerce in U.S. cities. It collected only $40,000 the first year, charged its fees on a percentage basis. (A.C.B. now charges a flat weekly rate of $400 per man on the job. What the man is paid is a deep A.C.B. secret.) In 1920, the company began soliciting business from churches, colleges, hospitals, and even the great national relief organizations...
Spinach to Mother. With 25 years of flat and steeplechase jockeying on both sides of the Atlantic, 13 years of schooling on the U.S. smalltime circuit, Frenchy knew a good horse when he saw one. In August 1943, he saw one at a Chicago track. Despite a game front leg, Happy Issue ran the way Frenchy liked-fast from behind. Her breeding was none too fashionable: Bow To Me, her sire, had already been shunted off to Cuba as a has-been. But her paternal grandsire was the great French racer Epinard (spinach), for whom French-born Pinon had high...