Word: flatted
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Completely Furnished. In New Delhi, the Times of India ran a want ad from an apartment-seeker: "European business man seeks acquaintance of attractive widow or divorcee occupying own flat. Object matrimony. Please send full particulars of flat...
Having fallen flat on his face last Nov. 7 when he failed to produce enough Chicago votes to re-elect Scott Lucas to the United States Senate, egg-bald, ulcer-plagued little Jake Arvey made good his threat to resign as boss of the Cook County Democratic organization. He did it, he said, "for reasons of health." To make him feel better, Democratic leaders promised him the job of Illinois National Committeeman, which has been vacant since Boss Ed Kelly died...
...report for a pre-induction physical, had replied with fine family spirit: "Herewith is the order and other paraphernalia I received today. I will NOT report for physical examination on Monday, nor on any other day, either." Then, after his outburst, he waited for the FBI in his dingy flat...
...Yellow Book was a queer literary blossom of the not-so-Naughty Nineties. Stuffy contemporaries thought it a stinkweed, but today it seems more like a pressed rose-flat and sere. A British quarterly launched by Critic Henry Harland and Draftsman Aubrey Beardsley, it ran from 1894 to 1897, published the trial flights of half a dozen future soarers...
Aitken continued his series yesterday afternoon with the Sonata in A op. 101, the Sonata in A flat op. 110, and the Sonata in C op. 111. While the quality of the playing was not quite up to the standard of the first recital, it was nevertheless a very rewarding afternoon...